> On Jan 31, 2025, at 06:20, Gavin Brown <gavin.br...@icann.org> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am seeking the wisdom of the WG on the following. > > Section 4 of RFC 9224 states that: (a) "the domain name's authoritative > registration data service is found by doing the label-wise longest match of > the target domain name", and also that (b) "the entry for the root of the > domain name space is specified as "".". > > The upshot of this is that if IANA were to add an entry for the root to the > bootstrap file, RDAP clients that implement RFC 9224 would hit the IANA > server for *all* queries for domains under TLDs that haven't added their base > URL to the bootstrap file. As of writing, that's about 25% of all registered > domains[1]. I believe that this has significant implications on the privacy > of user queries, in addition to the operational impact it would have on IANA.
> > Sentence (b) above was introduced in draft-ietf-weirds-bootstrap-11[2], while > that document was going through IETF last call. > > I haven't found the specific mailing list thread that resulted in its > addition, but it seems unlikely to me that funnelling queries to IANA's RDAP > server was the intent of the WG or the author, and that an errata would be > appropriate. > > Thoughts? That text addition about the root was submitted by Kim Davies to me. Marc (author) > > G. > > [1] https://deployment.rdap.org/ > [2] > https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url1=draft-ietf-weirds-bootstrap-10&url2=draft-ietf-weirds-bootstrap-11&difftype=--hwdiff#:~:text=The%20entry%20for%20the%20root%20of%20the%20domain%20name%20space%20is%20specified%20as%20%22%22. > > -- > Gavin Brown > Principal Engineer, Global Domains & Strategy > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) > > https://www.icann.org > _______________________________________________ regext mailing list -- regext@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to regext-le...@ietf.org
