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Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 13 November 2014 13:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types
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I have not had time to look at these drafts, but I think there is
significant overlap with John Levine's DNS description language.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levine-dnsextlang

Its extension mechanism uses the DNS to store RDATA descriptions, so in
principle software will not need to be updated to support new types.

What I wanted to do in this area (but I have not been able to pursue it)
is make the description language capable of being used to translate
between any of wire format, master file format, whatever json format
anyone might define, and a GUI editing interface. The latter means the
language needs to also be able to describe mnemonic field names and values
and support localised descriptions of them.

Tony.
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