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Re: [dnsext] Want this to be a WG doc?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 29 March 2012 14:04 UTC

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Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz> wrote:
>
> 2.0 Documenting the types
>
> In this section, each type will be presented, including a basic description
> of the syntax.  The basic description is presented because it might be
> helpful to implementers that merely want convert the data into a viewable
> format.  For applications wanting to process this data, consulting a more
> thorough description is encouraged.  It has been pointed out that none of
> these types are impacted by message compression or DNSSEC alteration.

I suggest replacing the last sentence with:

  All of these types can correctly be treated as unstructured binary data,
  as described in section 3 of RFC 3597 (handling unknown DNS RR types).

Tony.
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