Re: [dnsext] perhaps we should reintroduce "resimprove"

Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz> Wed, 15 February 2012 21:55 UTC

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At 12:11 -0800 2/15/12, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:

>RFC 4035, "3.1.3.2.  Including NSEC RRs: Name Error Response" has the
>following text towards the end:
>
>    Note that this form of response includes cases in which SNAME
>    corresponds to an empty non-terminal name within the zone (a name
>    that is not the owner name for any RRset but that is the parent name
>    of one or more RRsets).
>
>I don't see anything clarified in the dnssec-bis-updates document
>regarding this. Could you clarify what you meant by "DNSSEC
>specification clarified non-terminal names as existing but empty" ?

Does RFC 4592, section 2.2 help?

Probably what was meant was that DNSSEC forced a clearer 
understanding of empty non-terminals among other issues, which 
spawned RFC 4592 and the words there updating what is meant by 
"existence."

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