Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis

Only the zone authority can publish a DNSSEC signed zone.

Anyone can claim to publish a view of a non-DNSSEC signed zone.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Dick Franks <rwfranks@acm.org> wrote:
>
> On 3 July 2018 at 16:40, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Jul 2018, at 09:11, Matthew Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This is not a complete review of the latest revision.. I'm hoping to get
>> > to that in a day or two.   But I've got a question about whether something
>> > should be added to the document..
>> >
>> > A question came up in conversation recently about the use of the verb
>> > "to publish" in reference to managing DNS data.  It quickly became clear
>> > that there may be a common overloading of terms, where the same word means
>> > different things to different people.  I wasn't sure this fell into the
>> > scope of the terminology document, but I just checked and it does use
>> > "publish" in reference to DNS data, so perhaps we should come up with a
>> > definition for that.
>> >
>> > To me, publishing DNS data has always meant the generation of the zone
>> > and the data it contains, as distinct from distributing the zone (to name
>> > servers, possibly though zone transfer) and serving the zone (making it
>> > available to be queried on a name server).  To the person I was speaking to,
>> > "publishing" meant putting that data on Internet-facing name servers that
>> > would answer queries about it.
>>
>> To me, DNS data is published when it is made available to actors who wish
>> to consume it. That means serving the data (i.e. having servers with the
>> data available to answer queries). I have never heard "publish" used to mean
>> zone generation. A zone, once generated, is not published until it is
>> available for access by others.
>
>
> agree, the word carries the usual dictionary meaning:
>
>  publish  v.t. to make public; to divulge; to announce; to proclaim; to set
> forth to the public;
>    to put forth and offer for sale orig. any article, now books, newspapers,
> etc.;
>    to put into circulation.
>
> zone generation without the "setting forth" does not appear to qualify.
>
>
> Dick
>
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