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

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 10 September 2018 21:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Brief addition to terminology-bis draft
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In article <20180910165922.GA31252@isc.org> you write:
>On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:48:05AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> > I agree with Paul Vixie that classes were never defined well enough to
>> > be made to work properly, at least at Internet scale.

Agreed.  Since it's a different name space, there wouldn't be any
point since you can get the same effect without any software changes
by starting from a different root.

>This is not in any way an *urgent* consideration, but I do sometimes
>wonder what we (or, y'know, our grandchildren) are going to do if we
>ever run short of type codes.

Since the type code is a 16-bit field, if we allocate a new type every
week, it'll take over a thousand years to run out.  I think this is one we
can safely ignore.

R's,
John

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