Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-homenet-redact
draft-ietf-homenet-redact
Home Networking T. Lemon
Internet-Draft Nominum, Inc.
Updates: RFC7788 (if approved) March 13, 2017
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: September 14, 2017
Redacting .home from HNCP
draft-ietf-homenet-redact-03
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]. That document recommends 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], or specify how other software should deal with the
allocated name. 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.
2. Updates to Home Networking Control Protocol
This document updates RFC 7788: '.home' MUST NOT be used as the
default name for resolution within the home network. The new default
value is specified in [3]
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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>.
[3] Pfister, P., "Special Use Top Level Domain '.homenet'",
draft-pfister-homenet-dot-00 (work in progress), November
2016.
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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