Re: Summary: What to do with expired signatures

Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com> Tue, 12 February 2002 16:15 UTC

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06:17 -0500
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
From: Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>
Subject: Re: Summary: What to do with expired signatures
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At 10:40 AM -0500 2/12/02, Paul Vixie wrote:
>I'm now coming to the conclusion that "zone loading" should be deposited in
>the same dustbin as "zone file format." ...
>... The
>standard ought to talk about what's on the wire and what to do with stuff
>you got off the wire and what to put on the wire (and when and why), not
>implementation details like "zone file format" or "zone loading."

You are right.  I perceive that there has been a tendency for discussions
and documents to stray from the mission of specifying protocols and from
the goal of interoperability.  Given that there is but one testbable
implementation of RFC 2535, it has become easy to confuse that
implementation with the protocol.

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