Re: [DNSOP] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-dnsop-extended-error-14: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:17 AM Vittorio Bertola
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> > Il 23/04/2020 20:14 Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:04 AM Vittorio Bertola
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> > > Indeed, thinking at the possible use case for those error codes, it would make sense for the forwarder to forward them to the final user. Perhaps we can fix the language to make this clear? E.g., instead or "the server being directly talked to", "the server actually resolving the queries" or something like that?
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> > In my view your proposed text is simple, clear, and addresses the issue...
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> Well, to be honest, picky people might argue that also the forwarder, while normally only relaying queries and replies, might sometimes decide to filter one and thus apply the codes. If one felt the need to explicitly allow this case, the text could be "the server resolving or forwarding the queries". In any case, the meaning of the codes should be clear enough that people understand when their use makes sense... hopefully.

That's even better. It is also theoretically possible that the
authoritative could send this, but this is sufficiently far into the
pathological case that it can be ignored...

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