Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-glue-is-not-optional-02.txt

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, Ralf Weber wrote:

>>  First, as Mark said, sibling glue is sometimes needed.
> It is only needed for broken circular dependancies, which we don’t care 
> about.

They are not broken until you decide "we don't care about" :)

>>  Second, the server will most likely not know whether or not the glue
>>  is needed, it will just include it so it does not have to follow the
>>  complicated looping zones to determine if it is needed or not. Since it
>>  does not know if it is needed or not, it cannot make a smart decision
>>  on whether setting TC=1 is overkill or not. Thus the document saying
>>  "also for sibling glue, just set TC=1 if it does not fit".
> Ok that is not what the draft says. It says you must include sibbling
> glue, no matter what. Setting TC=1 if you include sibling glue and it can not
> fit it is something different. That probably makes sense for all referall
> where glues don’t fit.

We will look at improving the wording in the draft. The draft is not
about changing the rules of glue - we just thought to include some of
it to help implementers and to help explain why it is important to set
TC=1 even if you think it is harmless to not include some or all glue.

Paul