[162446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do people use public suffix for?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Leisi)
Tue Apr 16 15:04:13 2013
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From: Matthias Leisi <matthias@leisi.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:00:15 +0200
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>wrote:
> They'd really like to have a process which is less ad-hoc. For
> example, it'd be great if these points were annotated in the DNS
> itself, perhaps with a record which points to the corresponding
> whois server
>
Btw., this would similarly apply to reverse DNS. Having a well-defined way
to identify administrative control (maybe some better wording would be
required) could be helpful in defining boundaries for reputation systems
(eg "all IPs in this IPv6-/32 belong to the same ISP, but the adjacent /32
is someone else.").
-- Matthias
