Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 03 July 2008 08:06 UTC

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Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:06:40 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:23:58AM +1000,
 Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

> 	No sane TLD operator can expect "http://tld" or "user@tld"
> 	to work reliably. 

[Mark, you used non-RFC2606 names, the IESG will put a DISCUSS against
you.]

I agree but it is not the point: an email adress like
bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr is legal and works but not reliably (there are
many stupid broken Web forms which refuse it and tell me it's not
valid).

http://example is legal and should work. If it does not, it may
indicate a broken implementation.

>       I suspect there are still mail configuations
> 	around that will re-write "user@tld" to "user@tld.ARPA".

There are many broken mail configurations.

> 	Should we be writting a RFC which states that MX and address
> 	records SHOULD NOT be added to the apex of a TLD zone?

No. A TLD is a domain like any other and we should not write special
rules for them.

> 	Should we be writting a RFC which states that single label
> 	hostnames/mail domains SHOULD NOT be looked up "as is" in
> 	the DNS?

I hate special cases.
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