On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 4:49 AM Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > > Tim Wicinski wrote on 2022-03-11 01:38: > > ... for several years now I have > > felt those two need to be republished with all > > the updated text from the many updates (28 for 1035, 18 for 1034) in new > > documents. This does not include any other > > changes, and it feels like a thankless task. > not just thankless but useless. a correctness preserving rewrite, from > scratch, should be performed every few decades. (we're overdue.) a goal > should be readability which will require NOT reusing most of the > original text or including the updated text. we often didn't know or > otherwise misstated our implications. every material statement made by > any prior DNS specification or update to the specification should be > enumerated and checked off as its then-modern meaning is incorporated. > > i'll offer to join a team to work on this when i eventually retire, if > it hasn't been recently enough done at that time. so, i think, should > other guilty parties. > > -- > P Vixie >
I agree with you Paul on rewriting. I was trying to comment that even the idea of publishing a version of those documents with the updates as a -00/starting point felt thankless. But walking through the specifications ? indeed. tim
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