[DNSOP]Re: [IANA #1362913] expert review for draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-bootstrapping (dns-parameters)

[Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]>]

When I wrote my reply to Peter, I lost my comment about speaking not as the
chair but as a contributor.

The point I was trying to make is that the comments from Paul W as the
Expert Reviewer for the IANA registry is comment/opinion/vibe that should
be considered the most relevant in this discussion.

tim
(just a contributor)


On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 10:29 PM Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I wrote a note to Peter and his co-author on this discussion and
> we(chairs) feel that Paul W is correct in saying _signal is too generic.
>
> We should not overload any underscore label for multiple purposes.  If
> another type of operator signalling appears, a new label can be acquired.
> Being specific in this situation is a *good* thing.  It is not difficult
> to request a new underscore name, the process was made lightweight.
> The underscore registry is used by application folks as much if not more
> than DNS folks.
>
> Additionally in the Domain Verification Techniques document, there is a
> recommended approach to use application-specific underscore prefix labels
>
>
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-domain-verification-techniques-04.html#name-scope-indication
>
> I apologize to the implementers on this.
>
> Unless the working group speaks up, then the advice of Paul Wouters, as
> one of the expert reviewers for the registry, should be the suggestion.
>
> thanks
> tim
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 4:03 PM John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> It appears that libor.peltan  <[e-mail]> said:
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >On the other hand, couldn't it actually be beneficial if the signalling
>> >zone name is generic enough, and if (in theory on the future) it is
>> >shared with possibly completely different signals, possibly unrelated to
>> >DNSSEC?
>>
>> It doesn't seem very likely to me that someone would come up with an
>> unrelated scheme that somehow used the same zone structure. And it's
>> not like there's any shortage of potential name strings.
>>
>> _dnssec or maybe _dnssec-signal tell people what the name is used for.
>>
>> R's,
>> John
>>
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