On 13:20 01/06, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 08:59 +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> > And maybe cache the value if desired?
> 
> I'm already looking forward to having serials in resolver cache dumps!
> 
> > At the very least, maybe the draft should be agnostic towards 
> > non-authoritative servers?
> > 
> > So instead of:
> > 
> >     This EDNS option is aimed only to authorative servers for a zone.
> >     Resolvers and forwarders should ignore the option.  It's only
> >     intended for hop-to-hop communication (not transitive).
> > 
> > Maybe:
> > 
> >     This EDNS option is aimed only at authoritative servers for a zone.
> >     It's only intended for hop-to-hop communication (not transitive).
> >     Resolver and forwarder behavior is undefined.
> 
> I like this. I suspect defining it well for answers from resolvers to
> clients would open up a big can of worms that could kill the draft,
> like many other drafts that have been crushed under the sheer weight of
> scope creep.
> 

Yes, fair enough. Furthermore, the draft currently avoids talking about
"client" and uses "querier", which from the authoritative point of view
could be a debugging human or a resolver.

Hugo

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