Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:48:25AM +0000, > Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote > a message of 15 lines which said: > > > about a formal mechanism for documenting the field names of DNS > > RDATA, ought to be answered by draft-levine-dnsextlang.
I should clarify that by "ought" I meant that the problem it is trying to solve is extremely close to the problem that you have, and I think both problems should have the same solution. > draft-levine-dnsextlang is not published yet and, more important, it > is not implemented. The rrtype.arpa and rrname.arpa zones have not > been created and therefore we do not have the DNS records describing > the existing RR types. > > Also, the descriptions in draft-levine-dnsextlang are optional (if > they are missing, what name to use for the JSON members?) Perhaps they should not be optional. > Finally, the syntax for the descriptions in draft-levine-dnsextlang > will not always yield "friendly" JSON members (for instance because of > white space). So, we need at least to specify a derivation algorithm > (s/\s+/_/ ?) Better I think to adjust dnsextlang to be closer to the needs of programming languages including JSON. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
