Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-jabley-sink-arpa-02.txt
Joe Abley <joe.abley@icann.org> Sat, 26 December 2009 13:27 UTC
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From: Joe Abley <joe.abley@icann.org>
To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-jabley-sink-arpa-02.txt
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On 2009-12-25, at 12:00, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> The document creates an IANA registry called "ARPA Reserved Names" and
> allocates the name "sink.arpa", which is guaranteed to be a never
> existing name. The security considerations briefly discuss what could
> happen if the name suddenly would exist and I am fine with the text.
thanks.
> On the editorial side, I am wondering why the authors use ARPA and
> SINK.ARPA instead of the quoted writing style ("arpa" and "sink.arpa")
> for DNS names, as used in RFC 2606 and RFC 3172. Note that section 5.1
> suddenly uses "arpa" - if there is a subtle semantic difference
> between ARPA and "arpa" please make it clear; otherwise I prefer a
> single consistent writing style.
noted!
Joe
- [secdir] secdir review of draft-jabley-sink-arpa-… Juergen Schoenwaelder
- Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-jabley-sink-a… Joe Abley