Re: [DNSOP] Question on RRtypes in RFC 4034 Section 6.2

[P Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Existing signers and validators won't know the internal format of future rr types.

On December 8, 2015 10:09:06 AM EST, Paul Wouters <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Section 6.2 of 4034 talks about canonicalization of the RR Form
>
>Item 3 states:
>
>3.  if the type of the RR is NS, MD, MF, CNAME, SOA, MB, MG, MR, PTR,
>       HINFO, MINFO, MX, HINFO, RP, AFSDB, RT, SIG, PX, NXT, NAPTR, KX,
>      SRV, DNAME, A6, RRSIG, or NSEC, all uppercase US-ASCII letters in
>        the DNS names contained within the RDATA are replaced by the
>        corresponding lowercase US-ASCII letters;
>
>My questions:
>
>a) What was the purpose of listening these and not all RRtypes?
>    (It seems perhaps it wanted to say "All except A/AAAA")
>b) What should be done with new RRtypes like OPENPGPKEY or SMIMA?
>c) Why the hell - hardcoded lists and not IANA registry?
>d) Does this need updating or an errata?
>
>Paul
>
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