Re: [lamps] CAA DNAME behavior is surprising

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 28 August 2017 19:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lamps] CAA DNAME behavior is surprising
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In article <20170828100333.a0b21684ca41aae11edfb299@andrewayer.name> you write:
>Should implementers of RFC 6844 follow the current wording - that is,
>follow the target of the DNAME specified "at" the label X and do a CAA
>lookup there?

Am I really the only one who looked at that sentence and read its
obvious correct meaning, names that a CNAME or DNAME redirects?

R's,
John

PS: in the legal world, one of the fixed principles of statutory
interpretation is that if a statement has one interpretation that is
sensible and another that is absurd, you use the sensible one and
don't waste time on the absurd one.