Hi John, On 19 Apr 2021, at 07:57, John Kristoff <j...@dataplane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:31:49 -0400 > Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote: > >> NEW: >> >> The specification of the DNS allows both UDP and TCP to be used >> as transport protocols for exchanging unencrypted DNS messages. >> However, for various reasons, the availability of TCP transport >> has sometimes been interpreted as being optional. This document >> clarifies the need to provide TCP transport for both clients and >> servers and strengthens the requirement of DNS implementations >> to support both. > > Thanks for your careful read and thoughtful comments. I would just > point out that there is already a document that specifically requires > this of the implementations, IETF RFC 7766. This draft was > specifically aimed at operators, which have that document had > sidestepped "this document makes no specific requirements for > operators". So maybe a simple "implementations" to "operators" change > of your text would work? Oh, I missed that, sorry. Yes, I agree, "operators" makes sense. Someone is going to ask whether this document, as a BCP, can update 1123 which pre-dates such designations as standard track. That person is not going to be me, however. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
