Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-13: (with COMMENT)

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Fri, 31 August 2018 16:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-13: (with COMMENT)
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On Aug 30, 2018, at 3:08 AM, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:
> General:
> 
> The document seems to omit a definition for the term "class," although it is
> used in many places an clearly has a very precise meaning in DNS parlance. It
> would be nice to see one added, as I got a bit confused when I hit the
> definition for "Class independent" in section 5 and realized that I'd been
> conflating "RR type" with "Class" -- and couldn't find guidance in this document
> to clarify the difference.

Good catch. I'll ask my co-authors if they want to add a trivial one:

Class: A class "identifies a protocol family or instance of a protocol" (Quoted from <xref target="RFC1034"/>, Section 3.6)
"The DNS tags all data with a class as well as the type, so that we can allow parallel use of different formats for data of type address."
(Quoted from <xref target="RFC1034"/>, Section 2.2)

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> 
> §2:
> 
>> Multicast DNS:  "Multicast DNS (mDNS) provides the ability to perform
>>    DNS-like operations on the local link in the absence of any
>>    conventional Unicast DNS server.
> 
> This definition seems to be a little oversimplified in light of the mechanisms
> described by draft-ietf-dnssd-hybrid and draft-ietf-dnssd-mdns-relay.

Agree, but neither of those drafts gave much explanation of how their proxying and forwarding affected RFC 6762.


> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> §5:
> 
>> Master file:  "Master files are text files that contain RRs in text
>>    form.  Since the contents of a zone can be expressed in the form
>>    of a list of RRs a master file is most often used to define
> 
> Nit: "...list of RRs, a master..."
>                    ^
> 

We were pretty strict about not making editorial fixes to quotations from source RFCs.


> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> §5:
>> Owner:  The domain name where a RR is found ([RFC1034], Section 3.6).
> 
> Nit: "...an RR..." (see RFC 7322 §1, CMOS 10.9)

There too.

> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> §6:
> 
>>    The idea of a primary master is only used by [RFC2136],
>>    and is considered archaic in other parts of the DNS.
>> 
>>    The idea of a primary master is only used in [RFC1996] and
>>    [RFC2136].
> 
> These sentences seem redundant and partially contradictory. I suspect the first
> one should be removed.

Yep.

> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> §6:
> 
>> Privacy-enabling DNS server:  "A DNS server that implements DNS over
>>    TLS [RFC7858] and may optionally implement DNS over DTLS
>>    [RFC8094]."  (Quoted from [RFC8310], Section 2)
> 
> This definition seems incomplete in light of the mechanism defined in
> draft-ietf-doh-dns-over-https.

Agree, but it is what we have as a quotation.


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> 
> Acknowledgements:
> 
>> The following is the Acknowledgements for RFC 7719.  Additional
>> acknowledgements may be added as this draft is worked on.
> 
> This feels out of date. Consider removing.
> 

Good catch, done.

--Paul Hoffman