Re: [Inip-discuss] aliases and classes (was Re: Domain Names)

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Sun, 14 February 2016 18:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Inip-discuss] aliases and classes (was Re: Domain Names)
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 01:06:57AM +0000, Edward Lewis wrote:
> 
> These are weak reasons for saying - I wouldn't endorse spending too much
> effort to fix or make more sense out of the DNS class concept.

I have a not-quite-finished draft here that proposes closing the class
registry, however.

> I don't want to gut the concept from the protocol, because I don't think
> the effort would be well spent, but I also don't see that I'd want to
> preserve where it is in case there comes a time we could use it.

I claim you can't.  I should be able to submit this soon.

A

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