Re: [Spasm] CAA erratum 4515

Ryan Sleevi <ryan-ietf@sleevi.com> Thu, 16 March 2017 23:23 UTC

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:23:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Spasm] CAA erratum 4515
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> wrote:

> On 03/15/2017 07:46 AM, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
>
> Agreed. I think the lack of 'client' override - and apologies for my own
> ignorance here, as I couldn't find where the exclusivity was stated that
> ONLY a CNAME record may exist - is a pretty compelling argument against the
> tree climbing.
>
> While I disagree with some of the points below, I think this is the key
> argument about why recursion-into-CNAME-and-tree-climb may not be
> desirable - because it affords less control in the default configuration,
> and makes it easier to misconfigure.
>
> Great. So should I take it that you are now in support of revising the RFC
> to specify non-tree-climbing behavior?
>

Yeah, I think the issues related to expressing policies highlight why
tree-climbing is probably not desirable for actual CAA deployment.