Re: [DNSOP] My "toxic" remark at the mic today

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>Is there a document that says not to put such a record into the root,
>however?  If not, why should DNSOP say anything about this?  It seems
>like a job for SSAC to me.

IANA has a variety of policies which appear to me to say that the only
things that they will put into the root are NS, DS, and glue.

On the other hand, there's at least one delegated TLD that has a DNAME
at the apex.  It's been around for several years, it seems to work OK.
I don't see a lot of operational difference between that and putting
the DNAME directly into the root zone.  Management differences, sure,
but not operational.  I realize this is not the same use case as using
DNAMEs to shed queries for special names, but it's a DNAME and its at
the top level.

I'm not sure how toxic it is, but I agree that we are unlikely to have
anything useful to say on the topic.

R's,
John