Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Last Call review of draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation-07

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 07 December 2015 18:38 UTC

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On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:55:46PM +0000,
 Ralph Droms (rdroms) <rdroms@cisco.com> wrote 
 a message of 128 lines which said:

> Would you consider adding a little text somewhere to make it clear
> that the Appendix is intended as a guide to implementors?

Done,
<https://github.com/bortzmeyer/my-IETF-work/commit/b768c43ab0624ec9cc8361d221a27058b64b19a2>

> My recommendation to improve the document would be the inclusion of
> another appendix, describing the algorithm to use if zone cuts are
> known.

It already exists, this is the second paragraph of section 2. (The
ideal case.)

But I do not find useful to add more text: for a real resolver, the
algorithm in appendix A suffices (it works if the zone cuts are known,
see step 1).