It appears that Scott Kitterman  <[email protected]> said:
>>> What definition are you wondering why we didn't stick to?
>>
>>Real non-existence.  I'm not sure how to define it formally, ...

The DNS has had a formal definition of non-existence for over 30
years. You look up a name, if it returns records or NOERROR it exists,
if it returns NXDOMAIN it doesn't. There is no reason for us to invent
something new and incompatible.

>I don't remember exactly why we settled on A/ AAAA/ MX, but the lack of a 
>clear, actionable definition is why we included one.

See above.  I don't remember where the text in A.4 came from, but it is wrong.
If we are telling people to test whether a domain exists, they should do it
the way the DNS does it.  The correct test happens to be cheaper than A.4,
one query rather than three.

R's,
John

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