Re: [dnsext] draft-levine-dnsextlang-02

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 29 March 2012 12:01 UTC

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Miek Gieben <miek@miek.nl> wrote:
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> Can you just say "this is length of the NEXT item"? Or does it need to be
> generic "this is the length of item <NAME of ITEM>, which is more of a pointer.

Maybe. At the moment there's a very nice one-to-one correspondence between
fields described by the language and as they appear in master files, and
on the wire if you regard a length prefix as part of the field.

> Well, an idea I have floating in my mind is: if your (new) RR can not
> be described in terms of dnsextlang, you should think of a different
> syntax. Not supporting the HIP record would help in that regard.

Yes :-)

Tony.
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