Thanks Dick, this is very helpful suggestion and I’ll use it. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý ond...@isc.org
> On 24 Mar 2018, at 00:06, Dick Franks <rwfra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 23 March 2018 at 12:11, Ondřej Surý <ond...@isc.org> wrote: > > this is a first attempt to start reducing the load on DNS Implementors and > actually remove the stuff from DNS that’s not used and not needed anymore. > > > I have no quarrel with the overall effect of this proposal, but the > justifications are necessarily different for each category identified in > RFC1035. > > 3.3.4. MD RDATA format (Obsolete) > 3.3.5. MF RDATA format (Obsolete) > > These were already obsolete when RFC1035 was published and arguably should > never have appeared at all. > If these have not already been deprecated somewhere else, there is no > plausible argument against doing so now. > > > 3.3.3. MB RDATA format (EXPERIMENTAL) > 3.3.6. MG RDATA format (EXPERIMENTAL) > 3.3.7. MINFO RDATA format (EXPERIMENTAL) > 3.3.8. MR RDATA format (EXPERIMENTAL) > > After 30 years, it seem clear that the "experiment" produced little or > nothing of lasting value. Plenty of word have been wasted in the past about > open-ended experiments and unpublished results. Deprecating these RRTYPES > would put a formal end to the "experiment". Any counter-argument needs to be > justified by evidence of continuing use in the global internet, and made by > the parties directly affected. The "someone might be using it somewhere ..." > argument is far from convincing. > > > 3.4.2. WKS RDATA format > > WKS is IPv4-specific, so the choice is ether to wait until IPv4 itself > becomes deprecated, or to dispose of it now in the same manner as MB, MG etc. > > > 3.2.3. QTYPE values > > The intended meaning of MAILA is uncertain, but it is already declared by > RFC1035 to be obsolete. > > MAILB is a specific request for MB, MG, and MR records. > > Both should also be deprecated by this document. > > > > --DIck > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop > > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
