IETF Last Call Review of draft-davids-forsalereg-18
review-davids-forsalereg-18-genart-lc-housley-2025-12-04-00

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Document: draft-davids-forsalereg-18
Reviewer: Russ Housley
Review Date: 2025-12-04
IETF LC End Date: unknown
IESG Telechat date: unknown


Summary: Almost Ready


Major Concerns:

Section 2.2 says:

   Content tags are optional.  Providing a minimum set to allow
   interested parties to engage is RECOMMENDED.

The specification does not define the "minimal set".  Without a
definition, the RECOMMENDED phrase is not actionable by an
implementer.


Minor Concerns:

Section 2.1 says:

   If no TXT records at a leaf node contain a valid version tag,
   processors MUST consider the node name invalid and MUST discard it.

Discard seems like the wrong action here.  I think that you want 
processors to ignore such TXT records.

Sections 2.2.1 and 2.5 use "ACME" as an example.  I suspect this has nothing
to do with RFC 8555.  If that suspicion is correct, using a different
example string would probably be helpful.  If that suspicion is not
correct, please add a reference to RFC 8555 and provide a sentence or
two of explanation.


Nits:

Footer: s/_for-sale DNS/_for-sale DNS Node Name/

Section 1: s/mean it is unavailable/mean it is unavailable for purchase/

Section 1: s/domain name for availability/domain name for purchasability/

Section 2.6: s/can essentially be/can be/