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

Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org> Tue, 06 September 2016 04:36 UTC

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From: Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org>
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Subject: [DNSOP] Self-describing RTYPE in the DNS, draft-levine-dnsextlang (was DNS-in-JSON draft)
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John,

At 2016-09-05 16:38:00 -0000
"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> >First, it seems like it might be nice to have a way to express RDATA in
> >DNS presentation format. The document is very clear that no way is
> >provided for this, but it seems like it would be really, really useful.  
> 
> 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?

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.)

Cheers,

--
Shane

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