Re: [DNSOP] Benjamin Kaduk's Yes on draft-ietf-dnsop-refuse-any-07: (with COMMENT)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Sat, 15 September 2018 17:12 UTC

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From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Ólafur Guðmundsson <olafur@cloudflare.com>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Benjamin Kaduk's Yes on draft-ietf-dnsop-refuse-any-07: (with COMMENT)
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 09:38:54AM +1100, Ólafur Guðmundsson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ólafur,
> >
> > Before I get into the inline comments, I should note something that I only
> > noticed after I posted my ballot position: although everyone I know always
> > refers to this query as "ANY", that's the command-line interface in dig(1),
> > etc., it seems that the specified string to refer to this query is
> > officially "*".  That's what 1035 uses and that's what's in the IANA
> > registry; RFC 6895 has a clarification in a parenthetical "* (ALL/ANY)",
> > but I didn't see much precedent for only using "ANY" in an RFC to refer to
> > this query.  To be clear, I don't object to using that as the primary term
> > -- it is, after all, the common usage!  But perhaps it's worth a short
> > mention at the start that we use "ANY" to refer to QTYPE 255, registered as
> > "*".  The reader can perhaps infer this fact from the IANA considerations
> > that update that entry in the registry to also refer to this document, but
> > it would be nice for the relationship to be more explicit.
> >
> That is a great point something like:
> RFC1035 defined "*" as type 255 but DNS applications have used the "ANY"
> word to refer to that type code"

That works to get the point across, sure.

Thanks,

Benjamin