IAB,
the IESG has determined that it wants to ask the following question of the
Internet Architecture Board, following the procedures agreed upon and
documented at <http://www.ietf.org/IESG/architectural-iab.html>:
Document draft-klensin-name-filters-03.txt has been sent
to the RFC editor for publication and referred to the IESG
for review as an Informational RFC. The draft raises an
issue related to protocol processing which seems fairly
important, which can be summarized as:
"What issues should be considered when deciding when
and how to apply validity checks for protocol
processing not conducted by the application applying
the validity check?"
To steal a concrete example, what might be the issues in an
application pre-checking the syntactical validity of a DNS
name prior to passing it to the DNS?
2. Type of response expected
The IESG expects two things in response:
- a review of the Klensin draft and
- a short document describing the issues.
Note that this is not asking IAB to re-write the Klensin
draft, which explicitly does not take on this task:
"this document takes no position on whether or not the
testing is desirable. It only identifies the correct
tests to be made if tests are to be applied."
3. Response expected by: November 7, 2003.
4. Specific IAB people the IESG considers to have the best
background are: Leslie Daigle, Rob Austein, Patrik Falstrom