Re: [dnsext] CAA RRTYPE review - result [IANA #434639]

Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> Thu, 07 April 2011 11:37 UTC

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On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> There remain some concerns about the document and the way it is
> structured.  I trust that DNSEXT participants will offer the authors
> constructive proposals on how to make the document say more clearly
> what it has been trying to say.

And add the "null CAA" option that says "No CA should issue a cert
for this rrlabel/zone". Without that option, people will start populating
the CAA record with nonsense to achieve the same.

Paul