[DNSOP] Re: Registration request - missing "_tls" entr y in the Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Names registry (RFC 8460)

Dan Mahoney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dnsop
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Aug 18, 2026, at 2:39 PM, Dan Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 18, 2026, at 9:52 AM, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026, John Levine wrote:
>> 
>>> According to Dan Mahoney  <[email protected]>:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I am Requesting the following addition to the "Underscored and Globally
>>>> Scoped DNS Node Names" registry, per RFC 8552 Section 3:
>>>> 
>>>> RR Type _NODE NAME Reference
>>>> TXT  _tls  RFC 8460
>>>> 
>>>> RFC 8460 (SMTP TLS Reporting) defines a TXT record at
>>>> _smtp._tls.<domain>. Under RFC 8552, the name that actually needs
>>>> registering is the one closest to the root - here, "_tls" - with
>>>> "_smtp" as a subordinate name under it. Subordinate names aren't
>>>> separately registered; they're the responsibility of whoever holds
>>>> the parent entry, so this is not a request to also add "_smtp".
>>>> 
>>>> This looks like a oversight from prior work.
>> 
>> It seems to be yes.
>> 
>>> It's more of a race condition.  RFCs 8460 and 8553 were written at about
>>> the same time and we didn't think to do another pass over newly published
>>> RFCs after the last draft of 8553.
>>> 
>>>> I believe this falls under the "Expert Review" process in RFC 8552
>>> 
>>> Agreed.  IANA has a form for you to submit here:
>>> 
>>> https://www.iana.org/form/protocol-assignment
>> 
>> This is the process, yes.
> 
> I'll go fill that out just for the sake of completeness.  (Done)

Just to close the loop here, this has now been added to the registry.

Thanks for the comments.

-Dan
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