[DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Evan Hunt
One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated when a dynamic zone was dumped to disk, but couldn't be read by just

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 27, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Evan Hunt e...@isc.org wrote: One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated when a

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:57:01PM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote: Using an EDNS0 bit however, does not makes sense to me. Flag bits are rare and precious, while 16b option codes are not. I was expecting this feedback, and am entirely prepared to redraft using an EDNS option if (when?) that

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Miek Gieben
[ Quoting e...@isc.org in [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidenti... ] One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 27, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Miek Gieben m...@miek.nl wrote: [ Quoting e...@isc.org in [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidenti... ] One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Miek Gieben
[ Quoting nwea...@icsi.berkeley.edu in Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confid... ] On May 27, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Miek Gieben m...@miek.nl wrote: [ Quoting e...@isc.org in [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidenti... ] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hunt-note-rr-00.txt Interesting idea!

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/27/2014 12:29 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated when a dynamic zone was

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:08:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: I'm interested in why you think a flag bit is more elegant than an option, as I agree with Nicholas that the latter is preferable. As with any argument that resorts to elegance, it's a matter of taste. A single bit, which is already

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/27/2014 04:49 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:08:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: I'm interested in why you think a flag bit is more elegant than an option, as I agree with Nicholas that the latter is preferable. As with any argument that resorts to elegance, it's a matter