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Re: IANA type code registration clean up





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. [...]

[...] The question is what should be done about these undocumented types?

Answer A - document them.
Answer B - deprecate them.

[...]

Answer C - do nothing and hope no one cares.

[...]


Many of these RR type codes would, if re-registered with draft-ietf-dnsext-2929bis, answer NO to the following IANA registration template question:

Does the proposed RR TYPE require special handling within the DNS different from an Unknown RR TYPE or ignorable meta-TYPE?

Thus, you may consider

 Answer D - identify those not requiring special implementation handling

Regards,

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