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Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-sury-deprecate-obsolete-resource-records-01.txt

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Mon, 13 May 2019 19:30 UTC

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From: Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>
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Cc: Miek Gieben <miek@miek.nl>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org>, Evan Hunt <each@isc.org>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-sury-deprecate-obsolete-resource-records-01.txt
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On Monday, 13 May 2019 08:14:34 UTC Miek Gieben wrote:
> I agree with Paul here. Also sidesteps questions like why HINFO is not in
> this list.

i disagree with paul here. see below.

> 
> On Mon, 13 May 2019, 09:08 Paul Hoffman, <paul.hoffman@icann.org> wrote:
> > On May 13, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 07:47:35AM +0000, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> > >> A far easier approach is for any developer to feel free to treat these
> > >> RRtypes as unknown RRtypes.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're making here?
> > > What you said sounds similar to what the document proposes, so
> > > perhaps the document is unclear, or perhaps I've misunderstood you.
> > 
> > I am proposing that we don't need a document, nor changes to the IANA
> > registry: just treat whatever RRtypes you as a developer feel are no
> > longer
> > used as unknown types and move on.

as with IQUERY, we must document deprecations so that implementors and 
maintainers will know which burdens they can avoid. having it be a matter of 
ad-hoc "in-crowd" knowledged passed down from mother to daughter is not the 
internet engineering way.

-- 
Paul

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