Re: [dnsext] draft-diao-aip-dns

On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thanks Tony for pointing that out...
> 
> On 17. 6. 2012, at 19:01, Tony Finch wrote:
> 
>> So this "DNS Extension for Autonomous Internet" caught my eye. There are
>> clearly a number of autonomy-related requirements that the DNS does not
>> satisfy, such as private/internal names and ad-hoc networking. These are
>> currently satisfied by working outside the architecture - BIND's views and
>> multicast DNS respectively.
>> 
>> However this draft is not about any of that. It appears to be proposing a
>> technical workaround for dissatisfaction with ICANN's management of the
>> DNS namespace.
> 
> I am not so sure about the motivations, but I see this draft as dangerous
> precedent.  Unified DNS tree was and is an important building block of the
> Internet and standardizing DNS-split would mean the end of the Internet
> as we know it.
> 
>> But it seems to me that none of this is necessary: all it is doing is shifting the namespace down a level.
> 
> 
> Exactly.  And then it would be just a mess - every country would create it's own Internet.
> 
>> That is you can get a similar result [...] using existing technologies.
> 
> 
> +1
> 
> not that I promote the usage of existing tools for Internet censorship,
> but at least those are just tools, and not the justification to split
> the Internet.
> 
> Last, but not least, we (IETF) should produce technical documents
> and not political.  This is quite nice example of a document which
> (in my view) puts priorities of national states over the openness
> and overall compatibility of the Internet.

Hear hear….

There are a large number of major issues with the document (apart from legibility), but the added complexity and fragility for someone's nationalistic desires are not a reasonable tradeoff.

I was also muchly entertained by the Security Considerations and IANA Considerations bits -- wheee, lets bypass the existing (flawed) process and gets our own string by publishing a doc…

W

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