At 15:45 +0100 11/25/08, Otmar Lendl wrote:
D. Motivation for the new RRTYPE application? There is a need to provide a mechanism in the DNS to publish descriptive information about the status of the zone,This makes sense. I can see a number of registries making use of such a record to indicate that the delegation isn't active any more, because a domain * has expired * was removed by court order * was deleted due to missed payment * ...
(A digression...)That is what WhoIs or IRIS is for. The DNS should neither be a database nor a database inspection tool. It's just a lookup protocol.
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