Re: [DNSOP] type numbers, was Brief addition to terminology-bis draft

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If we end up with a type per protocol because people want wildcards to work
> we will burn through types much faster.  We don’t know exactly what the future
> will bring.

Uh, what?  In the past 30 years we've assigned under 100 rrtypes.  If that 
rate increases by an order of magnitude, we still have a thousand years of 
them.  Sure we don't know exactly what the future will bring, but we can 
make some reasonable guesses.

> I do know that saying that classes can’t work is self defeating and will 
> take a lot, lot, lot more of work to undo than just continuing to 
> support multiple classes.

Classes were a mistake.  We should deprecate every class except IN, 
perhaps keeping the one special case for CH server.bind.  That doesn't 
require changing any of the bits on the wire.

R's,
John