On 24 Mar 2018, at 20:20, Ondřej Surý <ond...@isc.org> wrote:
> 
>> It might be a different story if one of those zombie RRtypes required 
>> additional processing. None spring to mind though.
> 
> But (most of) those I picked actually *DO*:
> 
> a) compression is allowed, so compliant and non-compliant servers can’t speak 
> together, because non-compliant will just store junk in the RDATA when 
> received from compliant server;
> b) the RDATA needs to be understood and lowercased for canonical form when 
> DNSSEC signing; again you need to *implement* this in DNSSEC Validator as it 
> would cause validation failures if you don't

Fair enough Ondřej. Though I suspect the number of servers that sign or 
validate MAILA records  (or whatever) can be counted on the number of ears on 
one hand. :-)

FWIW the sort of additional processing I had in mind were things comparable to 
resolvers chasing CNAMEs or DNAME rewriting.

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