Suzanne Woolf wrote:
Hi all,
During the IESG review, Adam Roach noticed that
draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis talked about “class" but never defined
it. This seemed to the authors and chairs like a reasonable thing to
fix. It’s also important enough that we want WG review, but not
extensive enough to require a new LC.
Here's the definition that the authors would like to add to the document:
Class:
A class "identifies a protocol family or instance of a protocol"
(Quoted from [RFC1034], Section 3.6). "The DNS tags all data with a
class as well as the type, so that we can allow parallel use of
different formats for data of type address." (Quoted from [RFC1034],
Section 2.2). In practice, the class for nearly every query is "IN".
There are some queries for "CH", but they are usually for the
purposes of information about the server itself rather than for a
different type of address.
Please let us know your opinions yea or nay by Monday, Sept. 10,
midnight UTC.
i don't think this def'n serves the need. we need to speak more truth:
"The Class tag was weakly defined, such that either a zone can have data
in multiple classes, or each class can have its own zone cut hierarchy,
and so neither interpretation can be relied upon by DNS protocol
implementers."
then go on to "in practice..."
--
P Vixie
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