On 2013-03-05, at 15:01, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Joe Abley 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 DS parental-hints.example.com. example.com.
>> example.com. IN PARENT A ns1.example.com. ns1.example.com.
> 
> I'm very nervous about such a fundamental zone syntax change. It's going
> to take forever for zone tools to take up on this.

Every new RR is a zone syntax change.

> It would be better to use a non-IN class PARENT
> 
> example.com. PARENT DS parental-hints.example.com. example.com.

If the record is not in the same class, then it's not in the same zone. That 
route takes us back to Vixie metazones.


Joe
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