[as112-ops] [DNSOP] Future of "Using DNAME in the DNS root zone for sinking of special-use TLDs" ?

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Fri Oct 14 14:04:21 UTC 2016


On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> draft-bortzmeyer-dname-root
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bortzmeyer-dname-root/?include_text=1>,
> which proposes to "sink" special-use TLD (may be you've heard of RFC
> 6761 "special use domain names"?) using AS 112, will expire soon. From
> the discussions, the two biggest issues were the "governance"
> difficulties (adding DNAME records in the root...) and the privacy
> issues (sending .local requests to random AS 112 operators).
>
> It seems there is not enough interest for this work, so I was thinking
> of just documenting the current state of the discussion, in case other
> people rediscover the problem. May be an individual RFC?

This is tricky. We want DNS resolvers to not send these onto the
internet. But by adding delegations in the root to AS112, aren't
we making it more likely that the queries leak further onto the net?

Paul


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