Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-13 Thread Tony Finch
I have not had time to look at these drafts, but I think there is significant overlap with John Levine's DNS description language. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levine-dnsextlang Its extension mechanism uses the DNS to store RDATA descriptions, so in principle software will not need to be

Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-12 Thread Brian Dickson
IIRC, there is support for generic-named types similar to BIND's record type name/number thing. The RRTYPE would be a given a name which is something like rrtype, and numeric value associated with the name, which is . The RDATA would be encoded as a specified-length base-64 encoded

Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-12 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Can we change the name, please? Spartacus Club was the name of the pedophile rapist organization at the center of the on ongoing UK criminal enquiry involving 8 MPs and three police forces. There is also an international dimension. There is a significant probability it is going to become a PR

Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-12 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Second this. Also please do a brief wikipedia search before picking the next name?. Mehmet On Nov 12, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker ph...@hallambaker.com wrote: Can we change the name, please? Spartacus Club was the name of the pedophile rapist organization at the center of

Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-12 Thread Jay Daley
There are basically two approaches to handling new record types in any 'DNS language' definition: 1. Have a good extension mechanism built in; or 2. Issue an updated language specification each time a new record is agreed. Personally I think 2 is a big step backwards and 1 is much easier if

Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-12 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cah1iciqxwowao8nm8k-x47qiwawery9+etuefygzfn3aj5w...@mail.gmail.com, Brian Dickson writes: IIRC, there is support for generic-named types similar to BIND's record type name/number thing. It is RFC3597 format not BIND's record name/number thing. The RRTYPE would be a given a

Re: [DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-12 Thread Brian Dickson
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 12, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message cah1iciqxwowao8nm8k-x47qiwawery9+etuefygzfn3aj5w...@mail.gmail.com, Brian Dickson writes: IIRC, there is support for generic-named types similar to BIND's record type name/number thing.

[DNSOP] Spartacus and new record types

2014-11-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Does anyone know how Spartacus (draft-dickson-dnsop-spartacus-{lang,system}, on the agenda for today) handles new record types that may be invented tomorrow? I find nothing in the drafts, which describe the JSON structure for today's record types, but not for future types.