Re: IANA type code registration clean up

[Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Edward Lewis wrote:

> Yet another non-technical bureaucratic thread...
>
> Looking at this URL:
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters
>
> the IANA has allocated a number of RR type codes that are not  
> documented in RFC documents.  I don't really care much about the  
> procedural problem, but imagine someone trying to implement a DNS  
> element without looking at the BIND source code.
>
> I would point an implementer to the IANA pages to see what, for  
> instance, RTYPE codes have been defined.  I would expect that the  
> IANA registry would then identify the document describing the type.  
> The URL above has a bunch of lame or weak pointers (to some of the  
> types) and I have been trying to get IANA to change that (going  
> back a few years now).
>
> That's not the question or matter for this group though. The  
> question is what should be done about these undocumented types?
>
> Answer A - document them.
> Answer B - deprecate them.

+B.

Would this require a draft listing these items to assist IANA in  
making the changes?

-Doug

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