Re: [DNSOP] WGLC for draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Fri, 02 February 2018 01:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] WGLC for draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02
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> On Feb 1, 2018, at 20:27, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>> I think that this is an example of attempting to
>> do so: to make a name that already appears today in the DNS
>> (localhost) go away.
> 
> Okay, but this simply isn't true.   I think you actually responded to the dig traces I sent earlier.   The root servers securely deny the existence of localhost.  Existing practice is that localhost does not appear in the DNS.   The fact that the RFCs currently differ from existing practice is a problem that the current document is trying to solve.

Entertaining though it is to watch everybody talk across each other, I'm running short on popcorn.

Can we take a brief pause to acknowledge that "the DNS" as a phrase is highly ambiguous and think about whether we mean the protocol, any particular implementation, any particular installation or the namespace (and if so, which one, since there are many, even if our context is a single Root Server System serving a single Root Zone, note capitals, which I think it should be).


Joe