Bundling of Domain Names and DNAME

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Fri Dec 4 15:10:56 CET 2009


sorry, i should have said "working group other than IDNABIS"

v

On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:36:50AM -0500, Vint Cerf wrote:
>> Vaggelis,
>>
>> extensions of DNS in the XNAME direction would require creation of a
>> new WG for this purpose.
>
> It wouldn't require a new WG: that's exactly what DNSEXT exists for.
> So I think that's why Vaggelis has sent a note to namedroppers.  It'd
> probably make sense to take that topic over there and leave idnabis
> out of the discussion, since the reason for the extension (mirroring
> part of a tree to do DNS variants) is just one of the possible uses of
> such a mechanism, were it possible to design it safely.  (For the same
> reason, I send this only to the idnabis list, and not to that of
> dnsext.)
>
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