[6844] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain names for ISP infrastructure links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dima Volodin)
Wed Jan 8 08:16:58 1997
To: jcutle01@iscg.eds.com (James R. Cutler)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 08:11:11 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <v03010d0faef93f8d6527@[130.175.183.223]> from "James R. Cutler" at Jan 8, 97 07:17:42 am
From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)
James R. Cutler writes:
>
> All this discussion is fun, but what about:
>
> 1. Bind implementation enforcing character set restrictions
> should be observed by system configurators.
Isn't a resolver library purposefully junking not exactly correctly
formed domain names in a direct contradiction with the paragraph 1.2.2
of RFC-1123 a.k.a. STD-0003?
> 2. DNS delegations are just that. Businesses name entities
> within their naming context in a manner that suits their
> business purpose. Within their own context (and the RFCs)
> a business sets its own naming rules.
>
> Note that this does not rule out being cooperative and sensitive
> to the needs of others. But that is the prerogative of the
> owner of the delegated naming context. That is the essence
> of "delegation" in DNS.
Exactly.
> James R. Cutler
Dima
