Internet DRAFT - draft-homenet-redact
draft-homenet-redact
Home Networking T. Lemon
Internet-Draft Nominum, Inc.
Updates: RFC7788 (if approved) August 26, 2016
Intended status: Informational
Expires: February 27, 2017
Redacting .home from HNCP
draft-homenet-redact-00
Abstract
This document updates the Home Networking Control Protocol,
eliminating the recommendation for a default top-level name for local
name resolution.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Updates to Home Networking Control Protocol . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1. Introduction
The Homenet working group has defined a mechanism for sharing
information between homenet routers, in Home Networking Control
Protocol [2]. This document recomments the use of the ".home" top-
level name as a locally-resolved domain name.
RFC7788 did not follow the process defined in Special Use Domain
Names [1]. It is likely that, had this process been followed, it
would not have been possible to gain consensus on the use of '.home'
as the locally-resolved special-use top-level name for homenets,
because this name is known to be informally in use by sites on the
internet, and the use to which this name has been put is not well
documented; it is impossible to say that there are no conflicting
uses for the name, and so getting consensus to use it anyway would
have been controversial, time consuming, and possibly futile.
The RFC6761 process is not well-understood within the IETF, and the
authors of RFC7788 were not aware of it. Normally, authors are not
expected to know all there is to know about IETF process, and IETF
leadership, specifically working group chairs, area directors and
directorate members are expected to engage in a review process that
notices oversights of this sort.
Unfortunately, in the case of RFC7788, none of the people who should
have caught the missing RFC6761 reference did catch it, and RFC 7788
was published as a consensus document that uses '.home' without ever
reserving it in the RFC6761 Special-Use Domain Names registry.
This document updates RFC 7788 to remove the specification to use
'.home' for site-local name resolution within the homenet.
2. Updates to Home Networking Control Protocol
The final paragraph of RFC 7788, section 8, is updated as follows:
OLD:
Names and unqualified zones are used in an HNCP network to provide
naming and service discovery with local significance. A network-
wide zone is appended to all single labels or unqualified zones in
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order to qualify them. ".home" is the default; however, an
administrator MAY configure the announcement of a Domain-Name TLV
(Section 10.6) for the network to use a different one. In case
multiple are announced, the domain of the node with the greatest
node identifier takes precedence.
NEW: (deleted)
3. Normative References
[1] Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "Special-Use Domain Names",
RFC 6761, DOI 10.17487/RFC6761, February 2013,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6761>.
[2] Stenberg, M., Barth, S., and P. Pfister, "Home Networking
Control Protocol", RFC 7788, DOI 10.17487/RFC7788, April
2016, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7788>.
Author's Address
Ted Lemon
Nominum, Inc.
800 Bridge Parkway
Redwood City, California 94065
United States of America
Phone: +1 650 381 6000
Email: ted.lemon@nominum.com
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