Implementation questions (digressing from...)

Mark Davis mark at macchiato.com
Tue Dec 23 23:51:05 CET 2008


Half of what the protocol does is impose requirements on registries.
Are you saying that we should remove those?

Mark



On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 14:32, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at shinkuro.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:38:29PM -0800, Mark Davis wrote:
>
>> Along the lines of what you are talking about, I think one way to solve the
>> problem is to have a requirement on registries in the protocol, that
>> whenever two strings differ only by these characters, that they must either
>> bundle or block.
>
> I suggest that any text that we might include that attempts to
> "require" registries to do anything is at best going to get the
> documents wound up pretty tightly during IETF last call.  We're not in
> a position to mandate policies on the part of registries.
>
> I think it would be good to provide the strong advice that registries
> -- or, the term I like better, "zone operators" -- need to worry about
> these cases.  It would probably be a good idea to create a document
> that suggests a possible solution.  We've been informed before,
> however, that it's off charter and so can't be adopted by the WG.
>
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