Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-01.txt

As promised, here's an -01 that addresses the concrete feedback in the
adoption thread. A brief summary is in the doc
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-01#appendix-B.1,
but an even briefer summary is that it removes the waffling on the secure
delegation question by mandating the current behavior of returning NXDOMAIN
along with NSEC records constituting a secure denial of existence. That
seemed to me to be where the thread's consensus landed.

I welcome any and all feedback on the draft. :)

-mike

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 2:17 PM, <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:

>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations WG of the
> IETF.
>
>         Title           : Let 'localhost' be localhost.
>         Author          : Mike West
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-dnsop-let-
> localhost-be-localhost-01.txt
>         Pages           : 9
>         Date            : 2017-10-24
>
> Abstract:
>    This document updates RFC6761 with the goal of ensuring that
>    "localhost" can be safely relied upon as a name for the local host's
>    loopback interface.  To that end, stub resolvers are required to
>    resolve localhost names to loopback addresses.  Recursive DNS servers
>    are required to return "NXDOMAIN" when queried for localhost names,
>    making non-conformant stub resolvers more likely to fail and produce
>    problem reports that result in updates.
>
>    Together, these requirements would allow applications and
>    specifications to join regular users in drawing the common-sense
>    conclusions that "localhost" means "localhost", and doesn't resolve
>    to somewhere else on the network.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-
> localhost-be-localhost/
>
> There are also htmlized versions available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-01
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-
> localhost-be-localhost-01
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dnsop-let-
> localhost-be-localhost-01
>
>
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