Re: [DNSOP] [art] Another look - draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-05.txt

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Thu, 29 March 2018 22:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] [art] Another look - draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-05.txt
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On 3/29/18 5:02 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
> However, I believe that this discussion is, however
> unintentionally, a distraction from a far more important issue.
> The way the DNS, and particularly DNS queries, are defined makes
> the idea of a namespace for all labels starting with "_" very
> difficult and potentially a source of confusion.  While sorting
> the registry by RRTYPE is an improvement over earlier versions,
> the correct structure  is to have subregistries by RRTYPE, each
> with whatever keywords (starting with underscore) are
> appropriate for use with it listed.

I'll note that I made a similar suggestion back in August, but was 
convinced by people I presumed to know more about DNS than I do that I 
only thought this was okay because I had a completely incorrect notion 
of what DNS names really mean.

See, e.g.:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/RsvttUAnSKI9SntCft8c84EGMT0
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/ESNRdIBjRYiyVQcRx5zwGVdoHa8
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/MZ35ZO8Uig9VXeeHCy1u-1LBtTI
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/T4DbIpeyTafs4KWx0Vji3e8Aw9I

I still don't fully understand the nature of the objections I cite above 
or the assertions that having separate tables for different RRTYPEs is 
somehow broken. Based on my (admittedly lay) understanding of how DNS is 
used by other protocols, I agree with your proposal that having distinct 
tables for each RRTYPE makes far more sense than the current structure.

/a