Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:49:17PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > The IAB is ready to ask the RFC-Editor to publish
> > 
> >           What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names
> >                       draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02
> > 
> > as an Informational RFC.  [...]
> i think this document is just silly.  and highly subjective.  there is
> no way to edit it to correct its problems -- it should just quietly die.
> IAB should preserve its relevance and integrity by limiting its focus
> to objective technical matters (such as the excellent work on wildcards
> back when COM and NET each had wildcards), rather than fluff like this.

It has been my unfortunate experience that such documents are
necessary.  When such a document is published by a reputable source,
it saves others the trouble of having to explain repeatedly why
certain things do not work the way they might seem to, and why
assumptions must be questioned before they are acted upon.  For
example, I don't know how many times I gave essentially the same
lecture to people who wanted so very much to believe that domains
registered in .country were actually IN that country.

--gregbo

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