[DNSOP] Re: Introducing Relative Label for DNS

Joe Abley <jabley@strandkip.nl> Sun, 21 July 2024 23:44 UTC

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On 21 Jul 2024, at 15:54, Edward Lewis <eppdnsprotocols@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don’t think there’s any good to come from shrinking an in-memory size of the zone this way.  Saving space, sure, but I don’t think the cost in code complexity will favorable.

This sounds right to me.

> I see this as a UI issue.  A (secure) dynamic update client can elect to append the zone name (from that section of the message) where there is no ending dot.  In a zone file, $ORIGIN can be used at will (but doing so for each name would be overkill).

To be honest the whole idea of relative names feels like it has caused nothing but trouble. I'm not sure why we would want to encourage more of it.


Joe