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[DNSOP] blasphemy in the DNS

Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> Mon, 23 February 2026 16:40 UTC

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> On 23 Feb 2026, at 16:11, Ben Schwartz <bemasc=40meta.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> In general, I am skeptical of extending the lexicon, because I don't want to end up in the position of needing an IANA registered error code for "blocked due to blasphemy", etc.

I agree Ben. OTOH a DNS error code for blasphemy would be *really, really* cool. :-)

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