IETF Last Call Review of draft-davids-forsalereg-18
review-davids-forsalereg-18-dnsdir-lc-gannon-2025-12-15-00

Request Review of draft-davids-forsalereg
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 21)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team DNS Directorate (dnsdir)
Deadline 2025-12-25
Requested 2025-11-28
Requested by Mohamed Boucadair
Authors Marco Davids
I-D last updated 2026-06-12 (Latest revision 2026-02-05)
Completed reviews Dnsdir Early review of -09 by James Gannon (diff)
Dnsdir IETF Last Call review of -18 by James Gannon (diff)
Intdir IETF Last Call review of -18 by Tim Wicinski (diff)
Genart IETF Last Call review of -18 by Russ Housley (diff)
Artart IETF Last Call review of -18 by Takahiro Nemoto (diff)
Secdir IETF Last Call review of -18 by Watson Ladd (diff)
Opsdir IETF Last Call review of -18 by Chongfeng Xie (diff)
Artart Telechat review of -19 by Takahiro Nemoto (diff)
Assignment Reviewer James Gannon
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-davids-forsalereg by DNS Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsdir/kBSK-Y73CXrcueu6hmd1VRFcHMI
Reviewed revision 18 (document currently at 21)
Result Ready
Completed 2025-12-15
review-davids-forsalereg-18-dnsdir-lc-gannon-2025-12-15-00
Reviewer: James Gannon
Review Type: DNS Directorate Review
Review Date: 15/DEC/2025
Document: draft-davids-forsalereg-18
Review Result: Ready

This document proposes the use of the reserved DNS leaf node name "_for-sale"
to indicate a domain is available for purchase. The approach is consistent with
established uses of underscored labels and presents no technical concerns when
implemented as described.

In my earlier review of version -09, I raised the possibility that this could
evolve into a de facto standard, and recommended DNSOP discussion. Since then,
I have seen the draft circulated and discussed on the DNSOP mailing list, and I
believe it has received sufficient exposure within the operational DNS
community to proceed.

I also note Russ's comment on section 2.2 in his review on defining the minimum
set and support that setting defined before proceeding.

Thank you to the author for the continued clarity and refinement of the draft.