Re: [homenet] RFC 7788-bis

[Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]>]

On 6/16/16 2:48 PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
>
>> On Jun 16, 2016, at 1:26 PM 6/16/16, Ray Bellis <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> As was alluded to in my email of 9th June, we have been asked to replace
>> RFC 7788 (HNCP) with an RFC 7788-bis as soon as possible to incorporate
>> the errata raised by the DNSOP chair regarding the unintended apparent
>> reservation of ".home" as the default domain TLV within HNCP.
>>
>> We should also take that opportunity to fix the error in the diagrams
>> for the DHCPv4_DATA and DHCPv6_DATA TLVs where the numbers shown
>> conflict with the IANA registrations for those TLVs.
>>
>> Those two changes will be the only ones made, unless any further errata
>> are made in the meantime.
>>
>> Slightly longer term, and notwithstanding our previously stated desire
>> to wait until Ted Lemon's Naming Architecture was further progressed, we
>> would like to obtain WG consensus on whether ".home" is indeed a
>> suitable default domain for HNCP.  In the meantime, implementors are
>> hereby advised that ".home" is potentially subject to change.
>
> In my opinion, it is important for the exact requirements and semantics for the default domain be defined, perhaps even before the default domain itself is selected.  It's not clear to me whether the domain carried in the Domain-Name TLV can be a delegated domain or it has to be a special use domain name for location-relative name resolution like .local, or if either type of name is OK.
>
> - Ralph
>

+1 on this.

tim