On Jan 31, 2025, at 10:25, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > > It appears that Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@icann.org> said: >> Greetings again. The following is a proposal to help end-users who are told >> "please enter this record in your zone to prove your existence". It >> simplifies the process without automating it; in short, it makes >> copy-and-pasting more likely to work, particularly for the _label names that >> are >> being used more. (DomainConnect is working on automation, but with a >> different target audience.) >> >> If this interests you, please read the short draft, particularly the use >> case and design descriptions in the introduction. Those sections describe why >> the format is purposely limited for this narrow use case. > > While we're picking nits, it's not clear what the intended quoting is.
FWIW, that's an actual technical discussion, not nitpicking! > Here, for exampme: > > ["DUJ", [["add", "mail.yourname.example", "TXT", > "v=spf1 a:mail.yourname.example ip4:192.0.2.49"]] > > When that last text string is copied into the zone file, you'd want to put > quotes areound it > but here: > > ["DUJ", [["add", "yourname.example", "TYPE4321", "\# 4 0A000001"]] > > IF you put quotes around it, you'll get the wrong answer. I assumed that software that is updating zone files would know this; the examples in RFC 3597 are pretty clear about that. But I"ll add a note about that because different RRtypes have different quoting requirements. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- dnsop@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to dnsop-le...@ietf.org
