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.
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