>
>
> Olaf M. Kolkman wrote:
> > I only hope we both agree that the 'domainname' namespace will have two
> > registries once we create a registry for "underscored". The distributed
> > registry that roots in the IANA/ICANN domain name root and this new
> > registry for underscored labels.
>
> Good point. That perspective had not occurred to me, but of course you are r
> ight.
>
> Alas, it is a natural outgrowth of having special meaning for underscore name
> s.
> Value-add formal meaning requires value-add formal registration.
>
>
> >> One example of a likely point of impasse is the tendency to confuse "it
> >> won't work" with "I don't like it". Hence the team doing the specification
>
> >> can go through it's considerations, document them, and produce a solution
> >> that will, in fact, work, but that reviewers disagree with.>
> >
> > As always this goes two ways. There have been many occasions where DNS
> > folk suggested that the definition of a new RR type is the best way
> > forward and the folk using "TXT" said "that won't work". Personally I
> > think it is important that protocol developers try to develop protocols
> > in a way that comes closest to what I, and many or my colleagues here,
> > have started to appreciate as architecturally sound. That way can be a
>
> Is it equally important for this group to wonder at the long-term poor track
> record, in getting new RRs to reach critical mass in a timely fashion?
Dave,
we looked at the process and removed most of the hurdles.
* We cleaned up where compress domain names could be used.
* We formalised the handling of unknown types and classes.
* We gave IANA guidance on how to allocate new types and classes.
People didn't take advantage of the changes we put in place.
They wouldn't listen to us when we said things had changed.
In reality it is easy to get a new type and deploy new RRs.
I've done it. I've watched others do it.
Mark
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