Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-kskroll-sentinel-07

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> Geoff you are wrong. Titles should tell you what you are about
> to read especially technical documents. There are WAY TOO MANY
> RFC TO READ EVERYONE ON THEM.

... you lack ambition :-P

>
> If I had a TA for andrews.wattle.id.au the current title would
> indicate that I could test resolvers to see if there is a TA
> installed for it.
>
> The current draft *is not* generic.  It is root TA specific.
> That needs to be reflected in the title.
>
> As for the label it can be used for more than rolling KSKs.
> It can be used to see what resolvers are supporting new TA
> *when you are not rolling keys*.  The current name reflects
> *one* use, not all uses.

True, it does reflect one use case, not all -- however, we have
already changed the name multiple times and implementers are
(understandably) becoming annoyed, and supporting N different labels
for the tester is also annoying [0].

How about a compromise - we update the draft name, but keep the label
the same - the only people who likely care about the label are
implementers and testers - once someone sees the name they will read
the doc and quickly discover how it can be used.

W

>
> Mark
>
>> On 23 Mar 2018, at 8:21 pm, Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 23 Mar 2018, at 12:55 am, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> This title of this document DOES NOT match reality.
>>>
>>> "A Sentinel for Detecting Trusted Keys in DNSSEC” should be
>>> replaced by “A Root Key Trust Anchor Sentinel for DNSSEC”.
>>>
>>> kskroll-sentinel-<what>-<id> really needs something other
>>> than “kskroll” as the first field.  “root-key-sentinal-<what>-<id>”
>>> really more clearly matches what it does.
>>>
>>> Any other changes that follow from these two changes”
>>>
>>
>> I personally think this is getting into bike shedding at this point.
>>
>> The title of the document is an adequate description of the content
>> and folk who want to know more should read the document, not guess
>> from the title!
>>
>> The label is a piece of syntactic convenience and is entirely
>> arbitrary. We could start an almost infinite discussion thread
>> over which label is better, but in the end its just a label.
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>    Geoff
>>
>>
>>
>
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-- 
I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad
idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
of pants.
   ---maf