French registry wants the global Net's technical transparency maintained.
Seeing national registries speak up for the good of the whole Internet is actually quite rare. Although behind the scenes, most of the major ccTLD registries do involve themselves in a lot of technical issues that can impact our daily use of the Net, they rarely come out with public warnings.
AFNIC has gone against that trend with a recently published press release based on the July publication of an informational Request For Comment (RFC) by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), one of the Internet's main technical overseers.
Entitled "Reflections on Internet Transparency", the RFC warns of the possible dire consequences of impeding network transparency on the Internet's ability to support innovation and global communications.
AFNIC pays particular attention to a practice known as "Namespace Mangling" whereby when a requested domain name does not exist, an answer is returned anyway and Internet users are thus redirected to content which they have not requested. "The effect of this modification is similar to placement of a wildcard in top-level domains," says the IAB, noting that DNS manglers go one step further by actually violating the DNS protocol.
"People doing this kind of thing force their way of thought on the Internet community as a whole," AFNIC claims. "That should never happen."
The RFC itself makes fascinating reading and can be found here.
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