Hi, On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:36:24PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> deal with that fully, in a single spec produced an especially confused > draft, roughly 10 years ago. I _think_ I may be one of the people who complained at the time, and if I recall correctly what Dave and I agreed about (maybe the only thing) was that this was all a terrible mess that needed repair. At the time, I was still too much in thrall to data-theoretic approaches to give in on Dave's pragmatic answer. And I now see that Dave has actually described better than I was ever able my objection: > I've come to the conclusion that "accommodating" the established > registration practices is a fundamentally wrong path. The only way to solve > a problem of multiple registration authorities is to create a single > registration authority. Yes. > 1. Have this document define the simple, sole, authoritative mechanism > for registering "top-level" (global scope) underscore names. > > 2. Create a separate document that specifies modifications to the SRV and > URI documents, rationalizing the use of underscore names, through the > mechanism defined in -attrleaf-. I like this approach. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
