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Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 15 July 2009 19:17 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:17:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00
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At 2:47 PM -0400 7/15/09, Paul Wouters wrote:
>Tell me, what is the goal of this informational rfc?

I can only tell you my goal, and I am not the author. My goal is to describe different types of lying resolvers so that someone can ask "what type of resolver is that, based on the RFC WXYZ langauge?" and get a reply.

>To list common methods
>for not adhering to standards and how to classify them?

That works for me.

>and condemn some
>of them as bad?

That works for me too, although I think it is not that useful to do so in an Informational RFC.

>Some marketing person is going to wave the RFC number and say "It's allright",
>and my saying "But it was only an informational" is not going to make a
>difference.

Oh, please. If you want to re-ignite the period flamewar about what RFCs should and should not be published, that's fine, but don't waste our time here with it. The DNSOP WG has no control over that issue. RFC 2026 is the reference, and repeated attempts to change it have met with failure.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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