Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-00.txt

joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Wed, 12 February 2014 20:34 UTC

Return-Path: <joelja@bogus.com>
X-Original-To: dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270FE1A04C6 for <dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com>; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:34:43 -0800 (PST)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -2.448
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.448 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.548] autolearn=ham
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id k-VEIlEAXiQs for <dnsop@ietfa.amsl.com>; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:34:41 -0800 (PST)
Received: from nagasaki.bogus.com (nagasaki.bogus.com [IPv6:2001:418:1::81]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8011A0450 for <dnsop@ietf.org>; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:34:41 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mb-aye.local ([173.247.205.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by nagasaki.bogus.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s1CKYcbt001819 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:34:39 GMT (envelope-from joelja@bogus.com)
Message-ID: <52FBDADE.6020306@bogus.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:34:38 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/27.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
References: <20140210205838.15973.63281.idtracker@ietfa.amsl.com> <E63B37B9-EFA0-43A5-9AC5-81CEC23C342C@viagenie.ca> <00BDA580-984F-41D1-8659-04278737A526@hopcount.ca> <982167BD-10FC-4D06-9E85-47F371BBCA90@nominum.com>
In-Reply-To: <982167BD-10FC-4D06-9E85-47F371BBCA90@nominum.com>
X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="F9q8nVDE7x1U9W83PhAGqgT9URjlnsx1g"
X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (nagasaki.bogus.com [147.28.0.81]); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:34:39 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca>, dnsop <dnsop@ietf.org>, draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld@tools.ietf.org
Subject: Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-00.txt
X-BeenThere: dnsop@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: IETF DNSOP WG mailing list <dnsop.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/dnsop>, <mailto:dnsop-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/>
List-Post: <mailto:dnsop@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dnsop-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop>, <mailto:dnsop-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:34:43 -0000

On 2/12/14, 10:40 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
>> I suspect that there would be fewer roadblocks involved in choosing
>> an anchor ALT.ARPA than ALT, since ARPA is under the control of an
>> IETF family member while the root is controlled by distant cousins.
>> If I'm right that this proposal is for future, as-yet-unknown
>> applications, then the choice of anchor should be arbitrary; it
>> feels in that case like the path of least resistance is the right
>> one.
> 
> It really shouldn't be difficult to make this work, although if .ALT
> is already spoken for a different name might be needed.   If it is in
> fact difficult, then RFC 6761 is pretty pointless.

this discuss could dangerously veer into vanity territory and I'm
probably doing so by dorking with it but.

.IANA

seems kind of unambiguous as to where the registry for these things
would be.

> I agree with your other point, though—this may be useful for future
> efforts, but doesn't address the same problem as the other two
> documents we've talked about.
> 
> _______________________________________________ DNSOP  mailing list 
> DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
>