Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00

[Florian Weimer <[e-mail]>]

* Ralf Weber:

> That really is an issue and could be addressed, there are a lot of
> case where a A record for a domain doesn't exists, but one for
> www.domain does exist.

True, and some browser have code to deal with this.

> Question then would be how that rewrite should be presented. As a
> normal A answer or as CNAME referral which might be better as the
> underlying web server might not answer for the domain without www.

You can't create a CNAME alias to subdomain. And CNAMEs are not
type-specific, so this would obscure SOA/NS/etc. at the zone apex.

> That is not the intention and not what I read there. Diversion of
> powers is a concept that is not even common among "western
> democracies". The text tries to stay away from these political
> issues, and instead makes clear that the local law, goverenment or
> jurisdictions should be honored where appropriate.

Can't you omit this stuff altogether?