Re: [DNSOP] DNS versioning, was The DNSOP WG has placed draft-woodworth-bulk-rr in state "Candidate for WG Adoption"

["Woodworth, John R" <[e-mail]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DNSOP [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:34:48PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> > This basically means that BULK is a master-only feature, which implies
> > that there's no need for BULK to work across zone transfers, which
> > implies the need to standardize it for interop is almost nonexistent.
>
> I don't think that follows.
>
> The DNS market is, like the mail market did some while ago,
> undergoing a period of consolidation in which a fairly small number
> of people have a very large number of dependent customers.
> Unfortuantely, whereas mail is asynchronous, DNS is effectively
> synchronous: if the provder has a bad day and you can't get an
> answer the site is down.
> This means that customers want to have multiple different vendors
> as their master, and they want the secondaries of those sources to
> offer as much as possible the same features, even when various DNS
> Tricks are in use; and they want the downstreams to be using
> standard protocols.  The more we can make interoperate to support
> that, the better off those users are.
>

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback and support!


Thanks,
John

>
> Best regards,
>
> A
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