[DNSOP] informal review request: server diagnostics option

Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> Wed, 31 July 2013 15:58 UTC

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Greetings,

I've been working for a while on a draft describing a DNS protocol
extention that would allow a server (e.g. a validating resolver) to
return, upon request, additional diagnostic information along with
SERVFAIL responses, providing more transparency into the reasons for
failures.  The work has been on hold for a while, waiting until I was
free to attend another IETF, but at the urging of Francis Dupont, I've
gone ahead and submitted it today.

This is an individual contribution: as a protocol extension, I believe
it falls outside dnsop's charter.  However, it may be of interest to
members of this working group, and certainly could use your input; I'd
appreciate any suggestions and corrections people may wish to offer.

Thanks,

-- 
Evan Hunt -- each@isc.org
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.