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

SM <sm@resistor.net> Thu, 03 July 2008 00:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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At 15:40 02-07-2008, John C Klensin wrote:
>Now, for example, I happen to believe that "one-off typing error
>is guaranteed to yield a false positive", is a more than
>sufficient _technical_ basis to ban single-alphabetic-letter
>domains at either the top or second levels and to advise
>lower-level domains against their use.  Those are technical
>grounds based on human interface design and information
>retrieval principles, not "the network will break if that is
>done".  But few of the recommendations or reservations we might

Some people may question a technical recommendation that is not based 
on "the network will break".

>make fall into that network-breaking latter category.  Even some
>of those that fall closest to the line involve cases that we
>could "fix" by modifying our applications protocols to lexically
>distinguish between domain names and address literals
>(http://[10.0.0.6]/ anyone?).

Or wait for http://[2001:1890:1112:1::20]/ to catch up.

>But, should those of us who believe that single-letter domains
>are bad news refrain from advocating for that rule because those
>who oppose it could use it to discredit other IETF
>recommendations that might be more important?    I don't know

That's a question to consider before getting into any rule-making.

>The rather odd phrasing there has been the source of a lot of
>discussion in the past in both selected IETF and ICANN circles.
>Some of us read it as "TLDs will be alphabetic only -- no
>digits", not just "cannot be all digits".  The former was
>certainly the IANA intent when we were discussing RFC 1591.
>But does it apply today?  Can ICANN override it?  I can assure
>you that there are groups within ICANN who believe that they can.

RFC 1591 has been swept away by the changes that have taken placed 
since then.  By making a few changes to RFC 5241, we could have a 
document relevant to this topic. :-)

At 16:23 02-07-2008, Mark Andrews wrote:
>         No sane TLD operator can expect "http://tld" or "user@tld"
>         to work reliably.  I suspect there are still mail configuations
>         around that will re-write "user@tld" to "user@tld.ARPA".

http://museum/

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

The above TLD has an address record.

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

There was a ccTLD operator who expressed the wish for such mail domains.

Regards,
-sm 

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