Re: [DNSOP] Deprecating the status opcode

Dick Franks <rwfranks@acm.org> Sun, 19 May 2019 20:58 UTC

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From: Dick Franks <rwfranks@acm.org>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 21:58:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Deprecating the status opcode
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IMHO, not worth the effort

Dick Franks
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On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 18:31, tjw ietf <tjw.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can we like this draft *and* a RFC cleanup of 1034/1035?
>
> Though watching tcpm do this for 793 has been disheartening
>
> From my high tech gadget
>
> > On May 16, 2019, at 11:46, Michael J. Sheldon <msheldon@godaddy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/16/19 3:23 AM, Petr Špaček wrote:
> >> Notice: This email is from an external sender.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 15. 05. 19 19:57, Bob Harold wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:00 PM John Levine <johnl@taugh.com
> >>> <mailto:johnl@taugh.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    In article <064BA295-F3DD-46E4-86A9-E03CF68EB6BC@sinodun.com
> >>>    <mailto:064BA295-F3DD-46E4-86A9-E03CF68EB6BC@sinodun.com>> you write:
> >>>> -=-=-=-=-=-
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> In the spirit of deprecating things I have submitted a draft to
> >>>    deprecate the status opcode.
> >>>
> >>>    RFC 1034 says it's "To be defined" so this seems a little premature.
> >>>
> >>>    Other than that, go for it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Does this increase or decrease the 'camel' page count?
> >>
> >> Personally I think it is not worth the effort, it will just add one more
> >> RFC to read and does not help the protocol maintenance.
> >>
> >> I would say that it is better to have one "cleanup" RFC instead of
> >> one-off doc with one useful paragraph in it. With one bigger document we
> >> could say to newcommers "this is list of things you can ignore when you
> >> encounter them in pile of DNS RFCs".
> >>
> >
> > In a perfect world, we'd have occasional complete rewrites like what
> > happened with RFCs 821, 2821, 5321 and RFCs 822, 2822, 5322
> >
> >
> >
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