[homenet] RFC 7788 and ".home"

[Ray Bellis <[e-mail]>]

The Chairs have been asked to forward this to the WG on behalf of the IAB:

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The IAB discussed RFC 7788 and the appearance of the domain ".home" in
the RFC. The IAB was happy to see that an appropriate erratum has been
filed and approved, observing the problem with RFC 7788 and publishing a
fix for the error. The original text in the RFC is problematic, because
the use of .home in this case would constitute use of .home as a Special
Use Name, but there is no text in RFC 7788 following the process in
section 5 of RFC 6761 and no IANA Considerations updating the Special
Use Names registry.

The IAB requests that the homenet WG and the IESG follow up on the
publication of the erratum for RFC 7788 with the re-approval of the RFC
with a fix as quickly as possible. The IAB feels strongly that a
correct, formal RFC is required immediately to avoid any further
problems. Also, sending a timely note to the implementors known to be
interested in HOMENET may be useful.

The IAB considers the existence of RFC 7788 in its current state to be
problematic for two reasons: the specification of home in an IETF
document without following the appropriate RFC 6761 process may result
in other organizations pointing out that the IETF can't even follow its
own processes with regard to Special Use Names; and encoding .home as
the default in implementations may result in embedding this
inappropriate use of .home in deployed products.]

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There is some time set aside on our agenda on Monday for Jari to speak
about this.

In the meantime, please note that the RFC 7788 authors have filed a -bis
draft (draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-bis-00).

thanks,

Ray and Mark