Re: [DNSOP] [apps-discuss] Draft of interest in DNSOP: draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 8/28/2016 6:42 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> atrik's and John 's postings notwithstanding, I'm still concerned about
>> >the proposed way of handling this, namely to rely on IANA to do a manual
>> >check of the two registries the URI RR might call on.  First, it does
>> >not seem reasonable to me to impose that burden on the IANA staff and
>> >second a manual process like that is almost certain to produce errors.
> Well, either you can persuade Patrik and Olaf to revise RFC 7553 to
> add a _enumservice psedudo-transport to disambiguate, or you can't.
> When I look at the enumservice registry, I see that it's not very big
> and doesn't change very often.
>
> Rather than speculating about how hard this would be for IANA, why
> don't you ask them.  Do they have any other groups of registries that
> they have to monitor for name collisions?  How much harder is that
> than the checking they have to do in a large registry like ports and
> services to be sure they don't reuse a name?


Asking will give us a measure of 'willingness', not a measure of 
'long-term perfection'.  This difference is fundamental.  I'm worried 
about the latter, while I consider the former to be a distraction.

Simply put, specifying a smal task that requires humans to perform 
perfectly at random, very (very) infrequent times, is a plan designed to 
fail.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net