Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis-09

[Suhas Nandakumar <[e-mail]>]

Hello Stephane

please see my responses inline. thanks

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 1:49 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 11:13:23PM -0700,
>  Suhas Nandakumar via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote
>  a message of 72 lines which said:
>
> > I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> > Section 2.3
> > 1. MAX_MINIMISE_COUNT and MINIMISE_ONE_LAB - are the values for these
> constants
> > normatively defined or are they just recommendations ? Can the same be
> > clarified in the document ?
>
> The sentence "a good value is 10" seems to me indicating that it is
> just a possible value. The important thing is to have a limit. Do we
> think it should be rewritten with RFC 2119 words? MUST have a limit
> and the RECOMMENDED value is 10?
>

[suhas] agree with the framing here and it makes it clearer about the
objectives

>
> > Section 4.
> > The section starts with query for "foo.bar.baz.example" and walk through
> refers
> > to a.b.example.org  as query input.  Also no reference to
> ns1.nic.example seems
> > to be appear in the detailed flows.
> >  Can this be updated it to match overall ?
>
> Actually, there are *two* independant requests. One for
> foo.bar.baz.example and one afterwards ("Here are more detailed
> examples") for a.b.example.org. In the first one, ns1.nic.example is
> indeed used.
>
> Should we use the same QNAME for both?
>

[suhas] I will let you make a final call on this one. I was able to read
and understand but the intent wasn't
clear with 2 different Qnames on the first read.

>
> > Section 5
> > "QNAME minimisation may also improve lookup performance for TLD
> >    operators.  For a TLD that is delegation-only, a two-label QNAME
> >    query may be optimal for finding the delegation owner name, depending
> >    on the way domain matching is implemented."
> > This para doesn't clarify how the performance will be improved.  Can it
> > be extended with some context around the same.
>
> With QNAME minimisation, an authoritative name server MAY use exact
> matching ("do I know foobar.example?") while without it, it MUST use
> tree matching ("do I know thing.stuff.foobar.example or an ancestor of
> it?") and tree matching is typically slower.
>
[suhas] This helps thanks