Hi Andrew, On Oct 20, 2022, at 15:57, Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:40:01PM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: >> >> They're asking for the registry. > > Who is asking for it? And more importantly, what will a registry do? As I > pointed out already in this thread, the registry won't be complete, it won't > be accurate, and it won't solve in any way the problem of collision. So what > does the registry do such that anyone cares about it? > > Normally, a registry is created when it will help the operation of the > protocol. The problem here is that there's an _anti_-protocol, and therefore > it's mystifying to me how a registry helps anything, since there is no way to > know whether a registry will actually help or in some cases even hurt. Yes. This. I think this is difficult because this working group is chartered to work on this related to the DNS. To the arguable extent that any of this relates to the DNS, it's surely concerned with the boundary between the DNS and these other naming systems, some known and some imagined, not the details of any how any of those other naming systems should work. The operational, DNS concern here is that perhaps some of these other naming systems might step on the DNS in a way that causes some problem for someone involved in using or operating the DNS. Carefully specifying the boundary is surely the limit of what this group should be working on. (Even that is debatable. I have argued against it.) If that involves a registry, it's a non-extensible, closed-as-soon-as-it's-opened registry of precisely one entry which is "ALT", which is to say we clearly don't need a registry at all. Non-DNS naming system A and non-DNS naming system B may well need to make arrangements between themselves about how not to step on each other as well. Or perhaps they won't. Either way, I don't think it is any business of this working group (or the IETF at all, to be honest) to be involved in those arrangements. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
