On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 5:46 PM, Roy Arends <roy.are...@icann.org> wrote:

> Warren,
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> I can add to the last line of the second paragraph in the abstract as
> follows
>
> Original:
> To mitigate this lack of feedback, this document describes a method for a
> validating recursive resolver to automatically signal an error to a
> monitoring agent specified by the authoritative server.
>
> New:
> To mitigate this lack of feedback, this document describes a method for a
> validating recursive resolver to automatically signal an error to a
> monitoring agent specified by the authoritative server. The error is
> encoded in the QNAME, thus the very act of sending the query is to report
> the error.
>
> Let me know if this works for you.
>


Perfectly, and thank you.
W



> Warmly,
>
> Roy
>
> On 13 Oct 2023, at 21:59, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:
>
> Hi there, authors (and WG),
>
> Thank you for this document, I found it clear, useful, and an easy read.
>
> I did have one comment / clarification which I think would help the
> document.
>
> I don't think that it is especially clear to the first time reader that
> the query itself is the error report. Yes, it is stated (in the definition
> of "Report query"), and strongly implied in the last two paragraphs of the
> example, but I suspect that people will miss this. They will see "query"
> and "query report", but will assume that they should do something with the
> response to _er.1.broken.test.7._er.a01.agent-domain.example and somehow
> send the report there. People generally don't think of the qname itself
> signalling something.
>
> I don't have exact text to suggest to fix this, but perhaps something
> like:
> "The report query will ultimately arrive at the monitoring agent, and the
> monitoring agent extracts and parses the report from the query itself". or
> "The act of sending the query is itself the error report" or something?
>
> I think that this should be a simple, and clear improvement… but it's also
> entirely possible that it's just me who finds this confusing. If y'all
> think it's clear enough as is, I'm fine to start IETF LC….
>
> Please let me know LOUDLY either way,
>
> W
>
>
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