Re: Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

["Jiankang Yao" <[e-mail]>]

I submitted a draft related to this issue last year.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yao-dnsop-tld-names-00  


In this draft, I called this kind of names as TLD names  instead of dotless domains.




Jiankang Yao

From: Dave Crocker
Date: 2013-07-11 05:39
To: ietf
CC: IETF Discussion
Subject: Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains
On 7/10/2013 11:59 AM, Russ Housley wrote:
> The IAB has made a statement on dotless domains.  You can find this statement here:
> http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2013-2/iab-statement-dotless-domains-considered-harmful/


It's unfortunate that the IAB did not choose to circulate a draft before 
releasing the Statement.  The Statement could have been made a bit 
stronger in the concern it expresses.

There's been a separate discussion on the SMTP mailing list about the 
ICANN SSAC report on the topic of dotless domains.

The report correctly notes that there are also email barriers to the use 
of dotless domains.

The report incorrectly attributes these to the email standards, which do 
not prohibit the use.  (To be fair the format standard RFC 2822, which 
was in force for a number of years, did have the prohibition, but 
neither its predecessor nor its successor -- the current standard 
RFC5322 -- carry the limitation.)

Rather, the SMTP mailing list confirmed common software implementation 
barriers, sometimes due to the DNS-related stricture.

More interesting were other concerns about possible attacks and 
configuration errors.  The example of localhost was cited.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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