On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:16:12PM -0800, Ted Hardie wrote: > Silly question: how well would using 1.0.0.257.in-addr.arpa match the > need identified in draft-jabley-sink-arpa ? > > It seems like it would be equally well guaranteed to be non-existant > (short of change in the def of IPv4 and in-addr.arpa). Like > sink.arpa, it would get you a valid SOA and nothing else. > > Am I missing something, or is this operationally equivalent? > > regards, > > Ted
which is likely to be a more persistent as a non-existant delegation? the forward space is almost entirely controlled by simple policy - while the reverse tree has some more structure around its non-existant state... imho of course. --bill