On 2013-03-05, at 12:09, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I presume this has already come up, and there are good reasons why the >> apparent lexical flexibility in what I'm about to suggest are swamped by a >> sea of vicious snakes, but if the goal is "transmitting general information >> to the parent which in some cases they might care about" why not think about >> a more general RRType of the form >> >> ; zone cut >> example.com. IN SOA ... >> ; >> example.com. IN PARENT SOMERRTYPE rrtype-specific-data... >> . . . > > +1 I thought of that approach too, but it seems inadequate for the purposes of signalling candidate glue to a parent (there's no obvious way to encode an owner name, and the owner name is necessary with glue, unlike NS or DS RRSets). I guess another approach for that particular problem is to note the child's desired NS set and then use local policy to acquire secure answers for glue records where needed. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
