Re: draft-ietf-dnsext-axfr-clarify-05.txt

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

Paul Vixie writes:
> A zone's identity is what the primary master says it is.

Nonsense. For example, I've seen a zone that was set up with

   * a European server that returns some European addresses and
   * a United States server that returns some United States addresses

in an effort to reduce delays for users. (Of course, as I discussed in a
previous message, clients are under no obligation to keep track of this
difference.) There is no ``primary master'' for this zone. Your notion
of ``zone identity'' is simply confused.

As for your comments about the BIND 9-specific model of DNS being
``right'' while everybody else is ``wrong'': Do you seriously believe
that this religious nonsense justifies imposing massive redeployment
costs upon innocent users? If you want a new protocol, deploy a new
protocol; there is absolutely no reason to break compatibility.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

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