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

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

chiming in for the hum:

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:18:08AM -0500, Suzanne Woolf wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is the opening of the Working Group Last Call for "Let 'localhost' be localhost” (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02.txt).
>>
>
> I have read this document.
>
> ...
>
> I am really very troubled by the idea that any DNS server should
> return RCODE 3 to a query for "localhost".  (This is items 4 and 5 in
> section 3.)  This is not even wrong: the name _does_ exist, and indeed
> any server on the Internet would know that (since it would itself
> serve the answer _to_ itself of what localhost means; whether it
> should serve it to anyone else might be a different question, but it
> certainly should not respond with RCODE 3).
>
> ...
>
> I am sorry that cannot support advancing the draft in its current
> state.

likewise. i'd prefer this to be crafted as operating system api 
guidance, along the lines of RFC 1535. i can't agree to on-the-wire 
changes along the lines described here.

-- 
P Vixie