Re: [DNSOP] Self-describing RTYPE in the DNS, draft-levine-dnsextlang (was DNS-in-JSON draft)

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> If you want to do that, you could probably piggyback it on my recently
>> revived draft-levine-dnsextlang.
>
> Interesting. I vaguely remember someone (Olafur?) also had a similar
> approach to dynamically describing RTYPE in the DNS itself. Or maybe
> it was actually this draft that I am thinking of?

This is it.  See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-dnsextlang/

> I think it's a reasonable idea. Have you done the work of going through
> the existing RR types and describing them in this language? (I seem to
> recall a previous attempt was mostly successful, with some issues with
> the LOC type.)

That's the eventual plan, although there is a long tail of funky field 
types found only in RRs that nobody uses any more.

I have some funding to implement it, so I'm doing the useful parts first 
to see if I run into unexpected problems.  It took about 15 minutes to 
realize that it needs to let you name the fields as well as describe them, 
if you want to refer to the fields from other code.

R's,
John