Hi all, For those of you who were in the HOMENET WG meeting yesterday, you probably noticed a controversy that’s developed around the proposed .homenet special use name as the default for homenet naming: the working group is considering, among other things, whether its special use name needs an unsecure delegation in the parent zone in order to prevent DNSSEC failures.
If HOMENET is attempting to standardize a single-label special use name (a “TLD”), which is their current plan, this would mean asking IANA for such an unsecure delegation in the root, which may pose process problems. If they want a special use name further down the tree, such as one under .arpa, the unsecure delegation from the parent may still be required, but shouldn’t raise the same process questions. I’m hereby asking the editors of the DNSOP special use names problem statement document to review that discussion and determine whether it needs to be added to the problem statement. It seems to me that it would be very helpful if the problem statement could describe how DNSSEC is relevant to handling of special use names (including those that use DNS resolution protocol but don’t have global scope, or those that aren’t intended to resolve with DNS at all) and under what conditions it can be a problem. thanks, Suzanne _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
