Really, cancel culture.

It’s a couple of lines of code in a nameserver to support QCOUNT=0.  It will 
take more time debating this than it took to implement support for QCOUNT=0.

> On 19 Jan 2024, at 00:22, Joe Abley <jab...@strandkip.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 18 Jan 2024, at 13:42, Petr Špaček <pspa...@isc.org> wrote:
> 
>> The only piece missing to make it *perfect* is "MUST use QDCOUNT=1", or in 
>> other words, banning QDCOUNT=0 usage with DNS COOKIES. It's unnecessary 
>> complexity.
> 
> I think these are two different suggestions:
> 
> (1) Update the cookies spec to require QDCOUNT = 1 too
> 
> (2) Apply a definitive restriction on QDCOUNT for all future opcodes, 
> imagined or otherwise. 
> 
> I would prefer (1) to happen in a different document if is to be done, since 
> there are cookies-specific conservations to be discussed and I don't think it 
> would make the current document clearer to go through them all here. There 
> are also different operational considerations based on what currently does or 
> doesn't happen in the wild. 
> 
> I'm not sure what I think about (2), at least partly because I'm always wary 
> about predicting the future. 
> 
> 
> Joe
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