On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 08:33, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote:

> On 23 Jul 2020, at 16:51, Petr Špaček <petr.spa...@nic.cz> wrote:
>
 >8

>
> > I'm not native English speaker and I personally find confusing that
> sequence of characters "mandatory" is used as verb and also as name of the
> key. "optional mandatory" sounds like a joke.
>
s/verb/adjective/

>
> > To clarify this I propose to rename "mandatory" field to "critical",
> which terminologically aligns with X.509 and also LDAP.
>
> Please don’t change field names.  Master files are interchange documents
> (see STD13) and the presentation format is theoretically fixed when the
> type code is allocated.
>

+1

Apart from "mandatory" itself, which cannot avoid being mandatory, what
distinguishes an "automatically mandatory" key from any other optional key
not listed in key0?

If there is no distinction, why persist with this "automatically mandatory"
nonsense.


--Dick




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