Responding to one bit of Duane's response.

On Jun 18, 2024, at 10:40, Wessels, Duane 
<dwessels=40verisign....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

>> What should an authoritative nameserver return as zone version if it is
>> configured as authoritative nameserver but can't get the zone version (eg
>> because "no permission to read file")  One way would be to allow it to return
>> a zero length for ANY type and define that as an error condition.
> 
> I think the authors will need to discuss how to handle error conditions like 
> this
> and get back to you.

PaulW's DISCUSS on this topic doesn't make sense. If a server is authoritative 
for a zone, it has know the version of the zone: the zone is incomplete without 
its version. If the server doesn't know the version, it should not be answering 
any queries for that zone at all.

--Paul Hoffman
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