Re: [DNSOP] Brief addition to terminology-bis draft

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Suzanne Woolf wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the IESG review, Adam Roach noticed that
> draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis talked about “class" but never defined
> it. This seemed to the authors and chairs like a reasonable thing to
> fix. It’s also important enough that we want WG review, but not
> extensive enough to require a new LC.
>
> Here's the definition that the authors would like to add to the document:
>
>
>     Class:
>     A class "identifies a protocol family or instance of a protocol"
>     (Quoted from [RFC1034], Section 3.6). "The DNS tags all data with a
>     class as well as the type, so that we can allow parallel use of
>     different formats for data of type address." (Quoted from [RFC1034],
>     Section 2.2). In practice, the class for nearly every query is "IN".
>     There are some queries for "CH", but they are usually for the
>     purposes of information about the server itself rather than for a
>     different type of address.
>
> Please let us know your opinions yea or nay by Monday, Sept. 10,
> midnight UTC.

i don't think this def'n serves the need. we need to speak more truth:

"The Class tag was weakly defined, such that either a zone can have data 
in multiple classes, or each class can have its own zone cut hierarchy, 
and so neither interpretation can be relied upon by DNS protocol 
implementers."

then go on to "in practice..."

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P Vixie