Re: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
On 10 May 2001, at 0:09, List Admin wrote: > [Repost upon request from Patrick Corliss - this message had > originally been distributed on icann-europe. Note that I'm not > subscribed to ga-roots. Please CC me on any replies. > > What a chaos. -tlr] > > On 2001-05-08 13:24:23 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: > > > The misconfiguration is in creation of a .biz in an alternate > > root system, and connecting that to the global Internet -- an > > action which exposes one to all kinds of problems, not just the > > one you outline. > > I disagree. > > The interesting question about Jefsey's scenario is how the message > gets to a mail server which uses the wrong root system - from the > sender's point of view. (The argument is entirely symmetric under > exchange of canonical and alternative roots.) > Canonical meaning what? The orthodox view of the DoC controlled rootzone? You are forgetting that education is working and a paradigm shift is beginning. What is considered canonical today may be quite different tomorrow. Put quite simply, it is the duplication of a TLD that is the crux of the issue, not which root is used. No collision, no problem. Leah > 1. The sender himself may have delivered the message to a relay > (smart host) which uses the wrong set of root servers. In this > case, the user has either acted in a pretty stupid way, or he erred > on which root server is used by his preferred smart host. Thinking > about a typical ISP setup, an Internet service provider may indeed > turn out to be liable when he is using the alternative root and > customers expect (as usual) that the canonical set of root servers > is used. > > 2. A server using the wrong set of root servers is acting as an MX > for the target domain, as seen in the right DNS hierarchy. That is, > things are setup very badly. This would most likely count as a > severe configuration error, and is something which should be sorted > out between the owner of the target domain and the MX operator. It > basically just doesn't make any sense. > > > Thus, I don't think that connecting name servers with an alternative > root zone to the Internet is the really bad thing - but actually > using them may quickly turn out to be a very bad thing. Duplication is the bad thing. > > -- > Thomas Roessler http://log.does-not-exist.org/ > > > > -- > This message was passed to you via the ga-roots@dnso.org list. > Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe > ("unsubscribe ga-roots" in the body of the message). > Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html > -- This message was passed to you via the ga-roots@dnso.org list. Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe ("unsubscribe ga-roots" in the body of the message). Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html
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