> On 25 Jun 2024, at 16:36, Scott Johnson <sc...@spacelypackets.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Noted and changed.  Good stuff, thanks.  Updated draft (04) at datatracker 
> using that verbiage:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-johnson-dns-ipn-cla/
> 
> Is it appropriate to add an acknowledgments section or co-authors at this 
> point?

I’m not fussed either way.

> As well, should I be asking for WG adoption (DNSOP or DTN WG), or as an 
> Informational document, is Individual submission sufficient?

I’ll leave that for the chairs to answer.

> Thanks,
> ScottJ
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
>> Made the IPN description more specific.
>> 
>> 
>>                                           Wire format encoding shall
>> be an unsigned 64-bit integer in network order. Presentation format, for 
>> these
>> resource records are either a 64 bit unsigned decimal integer, or two 32 bit
>> unsigned decimal integers delimited by a period with the most significant 32 
>> bits
>> first and least significant 32 bits last.  Values are not to be zero padded.
>> 
>>> On 25 Jun 2024, at 15:22, Scott Johnson <sc...@spacelypackets.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Scott,
>>> 
>>> Wire format of 64 bit unsigned integer it is for IPN.
>>> Updated draft (03) incorporating all changes posted at:
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-johnson-dns-ipn-cla/
>>> 
>>> Let me know if you see anything else, Mark, and thanks!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ScottJ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, sburleig...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've lost lock on the ipn-scheme RFC, but my own assessment is that always 
>>>> sending a single 64-bit unsigned integer would be fine.  The application 
>>>> receiving the resource can figure out whether or not it wants to condense 
>>>> the value by representing it as two 32-bit integers in ASCII with leading 
>>>> zeroes suppressed and a period between the two. Internally it's always 
>>>> going to be a 64-bitunsigned integer, from which a 32-bit "allocator" 
>>>> number can be obtained by simply shifting 32 bits to the right; if the 
>>>> result is zero then we're looking at an old-style IPN node number.
>>>> 
>>>> Scott
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Scott Johnson <sc...@spacelypackets.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2024 8:26 PM
>>>> To: Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org>; sburleig...@gmail.com
>>>> Cc: dnsop <dnsop@ietf.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [DNSOP] IPN and CLA RRTYPEs to support Bundle Protocol RFC9171
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024, Mark Andrews wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 25 Jun 2024, at 10:32, Scott Johnson <sc...@spacelypackets.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024, Mark Andrews wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> An obvious correction “LTP--v6” -> “LTP-v6”
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Aha!  Good eye.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For IPN why isn’t the wire format two network 64 bit integers?  That is 
>>>>>>> 16 bytes.  Also 2^64-1 is 20 characters so 2 64-bit numbers separated 
>>>>>>> by “." is 41 characters.  It’s not clear where then 21 comes from.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> EID is the basic unit of IPN naming, which is indeed two 64 bit integers 
>>>>>> separated by a ".". We are seeking to represent only the node-nbr 
>>>>>> component of an EID, as the service-nbr component is loosely analagous 
>>>>>> to a UDP or TCP port, for which there is one publicly defined service in 
>>>>>> the registry, and a collection of space agencies who lay claim to 
>>>>>> another chunk of them:
>>>>>> https://www.iana.org/assignments/bundle/bundle.xhtml#cbhe-service-num
>>>>>> bers As such, there is no gain in including the second 64-bit
>>>>>> integer, representing service-nbr in the DNS records, and indeed, a loss 
>>>>>> of utility on the application level.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The node-nbr component is presently, under RFC7116, a 64 bit unsigned 
>>>>>> integer.  There is a draft from the DTN WG currently making it's way 
>>>>>> through the IESG which will amend the IPN naming scheme. Perhaps I 
>>>>>> should add it to normative references?
>>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dtn-ipn-update/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In effect it splits the node-nbr component into two-32 bit integers; 
>>>>>> Allocator Identifier and Node Number in the "Three-Element 
>>>>>> Scheme-Specific Encoding" of Section 6.1.2 over the above.  Section 
>>>>>> 6.1.1 describes the "Two-Element Scheme-Specific Encoding" method which 
>>>>>> retains the use of a single 64-bit integer.  Thus, a single 64 bit 
>>>>>> integer (20 characters) or two 32-bit integers (10 characters each) 
>>>>>> delimited by a "."
>>>>>> makes 21 characters maximum.  This preserves forwards compatibility with 
>>>>>> the proposed amended scheme, and does no harm if the scheme fails to 
>>>>>> achieve standardization.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or just 8 bytes on the wire with both possible input formats described.
>>>>> Machines using the records will just be converting ASCII values to a
>>>>> 64 bit integer.  We may as well transmit it as that.  Input validation
>>>>> will need to do the conversion anyway to ensure both fields will fit
>>>>> into 32 bits in the “.” separated case and 64 bits in the single value 
>>>>> case.
>>>>> Length along is not sufficient to prevent undetected overflows.  The
>>>>> only thing you need to determine is which format is the initial
>>>>> canonical presentation format.  That can be changed with a later
>>>>> update if needed.
>>>> 
>>>> I am tagging in Scott Burleigh, co-author of RFC9171 on this point for 
>>>> clarification.
>>>> Section 4.2.5.1.2 of same indicates:
>>>> 
>>>> "Encoding considerations:
>>>> For transmission as a BP endpoint ID, the scheme-specific part of a URI of 
>>>> the ipn scheme SHALL be represented as a CBOR array comprising two items. 
>>>> The first item of this array SHALL be the EID's node number (a number that 
>>>> identifies the node) represented as a CBOR unsigned integer.
>>>> The second item of this array SHALL be the EID's service number (a number 
>>>> that identifies some application service) represented as a CBOR unsigned 
>>>> integer. For all other purposes, URIs of the ipn scheme are encoded 
>>>> exclusively in US-ASCII characters."
>>>> 
>>>> Having already established that we are transmitting the node-nbr component 
>>>> only, and not a full EID, I am not sure we are restricted to using only 
>>>> US-ASCII.  ScottB, your opinion?  CBOR might also be an option, but that 
>>>> would place a higher burden upon implementers, I think.  Integer notation 
>>>> for wire format is fine by me.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Limit CLA characters to Letter Digit Hyphen rather than the full ASCII 
>>>>>>> range.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is possible for a node to support multiple CLAs on the same IP
>>>>>> address and node number.  Will this change allow multiple, comma
>>>>>> delimited values to be expressed in the CLA record?  If so, can you
>>>>>> point me to an example so I can get the verbiage of the draft right?
>>>>>> If not, what do you recommend (in addition to my defining that in the
>>>>>> draft)?  I like the idea of limiting the usable characters.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Personally I would just use a TXT record wire format with the
>>>>> additional constraint that the values are restricted to Letter, Digits
>>>>> and interior Hyphens.  The input format matches the TXT record with
>>>>> the above character value constraints.  The canonical presentation
>>>>> form is space separated, unquoted, unescaped ASCII. This allow for
>>>>> long records to be split over multiple lines.  Descriptive comments in 
>>>>> the zone file.
>>>>> This take one extra octet over using comma separated values.
>>>> 
>>>> Sold to the man from ISC :)  This part works great; thank you!  Updated 
>>>> draft pushed to datatracker at 
>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-johnson-dns-ipn-cla/
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Scott
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> e.g.
>>>>> 
>>>>> example inputs
>>>>> 
>>>>> @ CLA ( TCP-V4 ; TCP over IPv4
>>>>>    TCP-V6 ) ; TCP over IPv6
>>>>> 
>>>>> @ CLA “TCP-V4” TCP-V6
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wire
>>>>> 
>>>>> 06 ’T’ ‘C’ ‘P’ ‘-‘ ‘V’ ‘4’ 06 ’T’ ‘C’ ‘P’ ‘-‘ ‘V’ ‘6’
>>>>> 
>>>>> Canonical presentation
>>>>> 
>>>>> @ CLA TCP-V4 TCP-V6
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Scott
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 25 Jun 2024, at 08:19, Scott Johnson <sc...@spacelypackets.com> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> After reading the recent discussion about WALLET, I am hesitant to 
>>>>>>>> jump into the fray here, but this plainly is the correct group to help 
>>>>>>>> me get my logic and syntax right, so here goes:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I submitted requests to IANA for IPN and CLA RRTYPEs, these 
>>>>>>>> representing the missing datasets necessary to make a BP overlay 
>>>>>>>> network connection from data found by DNS queries.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> For those not familiar, BP is a store and forward mechanism generally 
>>>>>>>> used in high latency situations where there does not exist constant 
>>>>>>>> end-to-end connectivity.  It was designed for deep space networking, 
>>>>>>>> however has network segments and application uses which overlay the 
>>>>>>>> terrestrial Internet.  There will arise similar use cases on the Moon 
>>>>>>>> (in the reasonably near future) and Mars whereby low latency, constant 
>>>>>>>> connectivity exists, thereby making use of DNS in these situations 
>>>>>>>> viable.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> My Expert Reviewer asked for an i-d, to clarify the requests, and that 
>>>>>>>> said i-d be sent to this list for review.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Please find the approptiate draft here:
>>>>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-johnson-dns-ipn-cla/
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Relevant IANA requests:
>>>>>>>> https://tools.iana.org/public-view/viewticket/1364843
>>>>>>>> https://tools.iana.org/public-view/viewticket/1364844
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I have the BP community also reviewing this, but they are generally in 
>>>>>>>> agreement as to use.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Scott M. Johnson
>>>>>>>> Spacely Packets, LLC
>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>> Mark Andrews, ISC
>>>>>>> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
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