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Re: [DNSOP] Deprecating the status opcode

Chris Thompson <cet1@cam.ac.uk> Wed, 15 May 2019 16:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Deprecating the status opcode
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On May 15 2019, Jim Reid wrote:

>> On 15 May 2019, at 12:55, Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org> wrote:
>> 
>> This seems like the most non-controversial document ever in the history
>> of documents.
>
>A non-controversial DNS doc at the IETF? That'll be a first. :-)

Well, I am sure some nit-picking can be organised. As well as RFC 1035,
surely the admirably concise definition of a status query in section 3.8
of RFC 1034 deserves to be mentioned?

There is pre-history as well, of course. In RFC 883 the opcodes 2 and 3
were assigned to "completion queries" CQUERYM and CQUERYU. Or rather, they
would have been except for an obvious typo which actually assigns 2 to
both of them [top of page 27]. It's quite shocking that no-one ever seems
to have filed an official erratum against RFC 883 about this!

RFC 1996 assigned opcode 4 to NOTIFY without any explanation as to why 3
might be, in some sense, already reserved.

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Chris Thompson
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