On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:10:02PM +0800, James Seng wrote: > "There is a genuine user problem here (though whether one should actually > solve it is still an open question)." > > It is a genuine user problem but I disagree with your latter statement. > > It is not an open question it must be solved. It is a serious enough problem > for Chinese that it must be resolve for the Chinese user. The open question > is "how", not "if".
I understand that it is a serious problem. But one solution is in fact to solve this exactly the way we actually solved spelling differences in English words: they're different zones, and we treat them that way technically and use some non-technical policy rules to solve the problem. On this interpretation, the danger lies in acting as though there is a mere technical solution for "variants". Delegation (the "NS" solution) just creates a new delegation, nothing more; and we ought to be perfectly clear about that. DNAME doesn't actually mirror an entire tree, so it doesn't actually solve the variant problem for real. Therefore, if we want a complete solution to the problem of variants, we need a new element in the DNS protocol. It may require server side processing, it may not work perfectly anyway, and it may be subject to nasty subversions. So, there is a clear benefit because there is a serious problem. But not all serious problems must be solved, because the solution can be worse than the problem. I don't _think_ the current example is a case where the solution is worse than the problem; but I also don't believe we have completely understood what exactly the problem is, whether there is an actual technical problem here, and whether if there be a technical problem we can invent or reuse any mechanism to solve it. The proposals so far are, in my view, either completely wrong or just mostly wrong. (That includes using DNAME, by the way.) A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
