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Re: two-week review: registering formal "rdns" NID

worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) Thu, 11 February 2016 20:10 UTC

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Comments on draft-chen-rdns-urn-00:

I don't know how much this matters, but the owner of a domain name can
change over time.  This gave us some trouble when writing RFC 7462, and
eventually we gave up on using domain names as a basis for URNs.
There's a URN NID which I can't find right now which bases uniqueness on
domain names, but the URNs include a timestamp of creation.

The rule for lexical equivalence can't be implemented because there is
no algorithm for parsing an "rdns" URN into <reverse-dns> and <dss>, and
the lexical equivalence rule specifies that <reverse-dns> is
case-insensitive and <dss> is case-sensitive (as far as I can tell; you
should update the wording).

The nonterminal "revers-dns" is used in some places, and in other
places, "reverse-dns" is used.  I suggest cosistently using the latter.

I suggest consistently using <...> around nonterminal names.

The grammar of <reverse-dns> is implicitly given by the grammar of
domain names, but the grammar of <dss> is unspecified.  I suggest that
you add

    <dss> ::= 1*<URN chars>

Given that internationalized domain names are coming into use, you
should specify that <reverse-dns> is based on the A-label form [RFC
5890] for internationalized labels, i.e., the labels as turned into
ASCII by Punycode.

Dale

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