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Re: [DNSOP] ALT-TLD and (insecure) delgations.

Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> Mon, 06 February 2017 16:25 UTC

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On 06/02/2017 16:18, Suzanne Woolf wrote:

>> Yes, that's right, with the caveat that all existing locally
>> served zones are in the reverse space - there's no forward zones
>> registered (yet).
> 
> Could you clarify why that’s relevant?
> 
> Does it just come down to the assumption that reverse zones are not
> supposed to have human-visible/human-friendly names? Or is there some
> other characteristic of how those names are used that’s important
> here?

In the back of my mind I was recalling some conversations I've heard
that perhaps some other "reserved" forward names should be treated like
locally served zones (e.g. ".invalid") but currently aren't.

Ray

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