Re: [dnsext] Want this to be a WG doc?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 29 March 2012 11:23 UTC

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Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz> wrote:

> Any thoughts on whether the following would be a DNSEXT document? I'm asking
> DNSOP too.
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lewis-dns-undocumented-types-01

Having gone through the IANA RR type registry recently, this is quite a
useful document :-)

There's a nit in section 2.0: there is no need to consider downcasing or
compression, since RFCs 3597 and 4034 completely specify which RRs are
subject to these modifications.

Tony.
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