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Re: [DNSOP] A conversational description of sentinel.

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 06 February 2018 16:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] A conversational description of sentinel.
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On 6 Feb 2018, at 8:04, Petr Špaček wrote:

> On 6.2.2018 13:22, Tony Finch wrote:
>> A. Schulze <sca@andreasschulze.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, "kskroll-sentinel-is-ta-NNNN" is more descriptive and specific.
>>> I also prefer that longer variant.
>>
>> Yes, more friendly for web searches if someone is wondering about 
>> weird
>> queries.
>
> Bonus points if we can get a number reserved by RFC editor, it would
> allow us to use name like
> test-rfc0000-is-ta-NNNN
> test-rfc0000-not-ta-NNNN
>
> That would be super awesome.

...and super-unlikely, given the history of the RFC Series.

> Is something like RFC number pre-allocation possible?

Sometimes (rarely), after Working Group Last Call. That's why I 
suggested "kskroll-sentinel" since those words are in the WG draft name, 
and will probably appear in the IETF Datatracker forever.

--Paul Hoffman

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