On Apr 22, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Martin Rex <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:27:52PM +0200, Martin Rex wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone who believes that this clarification is a "substantive change"
>>> has not looked at the existing spec from the perspective of formal
>>> correctness.
>> 
>> Nonsense.  It is a _correct_ clarification, but specifications can be
>> vague in ways that, with the wrong interpretation, fail to
>> interoperate.  (One could argue that a significant portion of the
>> history of DNS is an illustration of that principle.)  Correcting such
>> vagueness is still a substantive change, and should not be handled
>> using an erratum.  If you think this is important enough, I urge you
>> to write 6698-bis, not abuse the erratum procedure.
> 
> I'm sorry, this is non-sensical.

It is what nearly everyone on the DANE WG mailing list other than you has said. 
It's not clear how you define "sensical", but in a participatory group like the 
IETF, "sense" is often determined by what most people are saying. Being in a 
small minority is fine (I'm often there, as many people know), but that doesn't 
make the view of the small minority the only sensical one.

--Paul Hoffman
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