> On 23. 3. 2023, at 17:57, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: > > On 22.03.23 17:36, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> in line with our deprecation policy, I am notifying the mailing list about >> our intent >> to deprecated the delegation-only and root-delegation-only options. This is >> again >> adept for expedited deprecation - it will be removed in BIND 9.20 and >> deprecated >> in BIND 9.18. > > what's the reason? Code cleanliness? > Or is it problematic to maintain?
Those are wrong questions to ask - the right question to ask is whether this bring any value - and the answer is that it doesn't, then it becomes unmaintained and untested cruft. >> The (root-)delegation-options were introduced as a countermeasure for the >> infamous >> Site Finder by Verisign[1]. With the controversy around this and >> introduction of DNSSEC, >> the likelihood of this happening is infinitesimal. >> >> If you don't even know what those options does, the TL;DR is that it disables >> the non-delegation records for configured domains (TLD), this in turns might >> break legitimate TLDs like .de, .fr, .museum and others [2][3]. >> >> If you know a legitimate reason to keep those options, please describe the >> use case >> here or in the issue mention below. > > well, if "just for sure no other AH tries that again" is not a reason for > you... No, it will not happen again, at least not at the TLD level. The community has learned and ICANN has learned too. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý (He/Him) ond...@isc.org My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours. -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
