Re: [DNSOP] A conversational description of sentinel.

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 06 February 2018 02:21 UTC

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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Petr Špaček <petr.spacek@nic.cz>, dnsop@ietf.org
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:21:07 -0800
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] A conversational description of sentinel.
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On 5 Feb 2018, at 11:18, Geoff Huston wrote:

>> On 5 Feb 2018, at 11:47 pm, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>>
>> Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> if not  underscores and IF “xm—“ as a leading substring is not 
>>> acceptable for
>>> some reason, then what label format would be acceptable for this
>>> measure?
>>
>> Maybe put the -- in the middle somewhere? e.g. is-ta--NNNN 
>> not-ta—NNNN
>>
>
>
> I thought this was due to some concern over the wording in RFC 
> <mumble>(some IDN
> RFC whose number I can’t recall right now!) over a comment that the 
> UC label
> should not contain the starting sequence "<letter> <letter> - -”
>
> Is there a broader concern over the use of double hypens in labels in 
> hostname
> contexts in the DNS?

Not from me. I think Tony's idea is likely fine, but I also think 
kskroll-sentinel-is-ta-NNNN is perfectly fine as well.

--Paul