At 14:41 04-01-2012, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
ICANN is eagerly soliciting comments, and I hope that those of you interested in this topic will take the time to read the report and send your observations. Having been a participant in this particular
I browsed through the report. I found it difficult to understand. "if an email is sent to localpart@dname.example.com and that name has a DNAME that resolves to realname.example.com, the mail transport agent is not going to rewrite the server-part of the address." I have some doubts about whether the above is correct. "It might, however, be one important type of variant-inspiring behavior, because most of the deployed code today supports IDNA2003 and not IDNA2008." I did not find any comment in the report about how to reverse the trend. "The users of the DNS are varied in respect of what they expect, what they want, and what they need." This section lumps users and technical usage together. There is not much of a difference between Law enforcement and other security investigators and end users. Instead of System administrators and Software developers, it would have been clearer to discuss technical usage and the issues that may occur. "Similarly, any site renumbering and so on will require twice the effort" I don't see what site renumbering has to do with (DNS) strings. "These issues are noted in recent reports from ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (such as SSAC 051)" That's a report on "Domain Name WHOIS Terminology and Structure". Which name to call WHOIS is not an issue. "Areas of application behavior, resolution and registration services, WHOIS service, and business logic all need to be examined in order to determine if these objectives are achievable." This is buried deep within the report. There are some examples to illustrate how the Internet, which has been reduced to web and email, may be affected. The web examples are simplistic. The two words which stand out in the report are Cost and DNAME. The report emphasizes that there will be higher costs in all areas; i.e. an increase in revenue for anyone with an interest in the work, from ICANN or the software developer. DNAME might be read as the off-the-self "solution" to technical problems. Regards, -sm