Re: [DNSOP] WGLC for draft-ietf-dnsop-tcp-requirements

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Mon, 19 April 2021 12:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] WGLC for draft-ietf-dnsop-tcp-requirements
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Hi John,

On 19 Apr 2021, at 07:57, John Kristoff <jtk@dataplane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:31:49 -0400
> Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> 
>> NEW:
>> 
>>   The specification of the DNS allows both UDP and TCP to be used 
>>   as transport protocols for exchanging unencrypted DNS messages.
>>   However, for various reasons, the availability of TCP transport
>>   has sometimes been interpreted as being optional.  This document 
>>   clarifies the need to provide TCP transport for both clients and
>>   servers and strengthens the requirement of DNS implementations
>>   to support both.
> 
> Thanks for your careful read and thoughtful comments.  I would just
> point out that there is already a document that specifically requires
> this of the implementations, IETF RFC 7766.  This draft was
> specifically aimed at operators, which have that document had
> sidestepped "this document makes no specific requirements for
> operators".  So maybe a simple "implementations" to "operators" change
> of your text would work?

Oh, I missed that, sorry. Yes, I agree, "operators" makes sense.

Someone is going to ask whether this document, as a BCP, can update 1123 which pre-dates such designations as standard track. That person is not going to be me, however.


Joe