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Re: [dbound] On (not) moving forward

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 27 March 2016 04:07 UTC

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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:07:06 -0400
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> I'm unaware of hostility. I am aware of interests, particularly in the 
> (generally non-DNS) folks who write the web GUI front ends to DNS 
> provisioning systems, to not write any more code than they have to. But 
> perhaps you know different people than I.

We GUI front end writers would like something like my dnsextlang proposal 
so the front ends could automatically configure themselves to handle new 
RRs.  It has been kicking around for at least five years, no WG has picked 
it up yet.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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