Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/27/2014 04:49 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:08:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: I'm interested in why you think a flag bit is more elegant than an option, as I agree with Nicholas that the latter is preferable. As with any argument that resorts to "elegance", it's a matte

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:08:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > I'm interested in why you think a flag bit is more elegant than an > option, as I agree with Nicholas that the latter is preferable. As with any argument that resorts to "elegance", it's a matter of taste. A single bit, which is alre

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/27/2014 12:29 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated when a dynamic zone was dumped

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Miek Gieben
[ Quoting in "Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confid..." ] On May 27, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Miek Gieben wrote: [ Quoting in "[DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidenti..." ] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hunt-note-rr-00.txt Interesting idea! What happens if a server get these records and

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 27, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Miek Gieben wrote: > [ Quoting in "[DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidenti..." ] >> One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion >> the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, >> to have a way to encode comments into

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Miek Gieben
[ Quoting in "[DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidenti..." ] One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated when a dynamic

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:57:01PM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote: > Using an EDNS0 bit however, does not makes sense to me. Flag bits are > rare and precious, while 16b option codes are not. I was expecting this feedback, and am entirely prepared to redraft using an EDNS option if (when?) that tur

Re: [DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 27, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: > One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion > the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, > to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get > obliterated when a dynamic

[DNSOP] NOTE RR type for confidential zone comments

2014-05-27 Thread Evan Hunt
One of our operations staff made what I thought was a clever suggestion the other day: That it would be nice, from an operational standpoint, to have a way to encode comments into a zone so that they wouldn't get obliterated when a dynamic zone was dumped to disk, but couldn't be read by just anyb