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Re: [DNSOP] .arpa

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Wed, 22 March 2017 11:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] .arpa
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> On 22 Mar 2017, at 11:40, Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 3:05 AM, Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 Mar 2017, at 14:53, Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> RFC 3172 was written in 2001…
>> 
>> RFC 3172 was an attempt to rewrite history and contrive an acronym: Address and Routing Parameter Area - really?
> 
> Well, no. I thought it wasn’t rewriting anything, but setting a future direction. (The backronym was cute or annoying, depending on your POV, but ultimately not that important.)
> 
>>> Respectfully, I’ve always wondered who has this problem (US or non-US) besides network infrastructure geeks Of a Certain Age (yes, including myself, and many IETF participants).
>> 
>> It's a convenient tool for those hostile to USG "control" of the Internet: ie the US military is responsible for everything under .arpa, the US military's ARPA has still got some special status in the operation/development/control of the Internet, etc, etc. 
> 
> So the answer to “Why not actually use it where it’s technically suitable” is essentially “installed base”? 
> 
> I don’t mean to sound flippant— I’m just trying to understand the view that there’s a bigger obstacle to using .arpa than there is to asking ICANN for a root zone entry and engaging with all of the resulting complexities.

Surely the people who would make comments about (say) homenet.arpa are already making comments about in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa?  So is there really that great a harm in using .arpa for additional things (that make many lives easier in many other ways)?

Tim

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