Re: [DNSOP] Mandated order of CNAME records in a CNAME chain?

2016-09-30 Thread John Levine
>I'm inclined to conclude (as suggested off-list) that, while it >may be prudent to parse conservatively, and not make ordering >assumptions, in fact less tolerant stub resolvers are sufficiently >common and so one would likely get away with assuming natural >ordering. So perhaps doing it right is

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-09-30 Thread Ted Lemon
The problem is that you are doing the same thing I was just talking about: looking at the things you care about, and leaving out everything else. It's possible that there simply isn't energy to do this work, in which case we definitely shouldn't do it. But what we are trying to do with our docum

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-09-30 Thread hellekin
On 09/30/2016 01:03 AM, George Michaelson wrote: > Thats precisely why its NOT a false analogy: the design model in the > IETF is that the value doesn't matter, but in the DNS, the design > model is "follow the money" > > [snip] > > If they see inherent value in the string, then they immediately wa