I have not had time to look at these drafts, but I think there is significant overlap with John Levine's DNS description language. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levine-dnsextlang
Its extension mechanism uses the DNS to store RDATA descriptions, so in principle software will not need to be updated to support new types. What I wanted to do in this area (but I have not been able to pursue it) is make the description language capable of being used to translate between any of wire format, master file format, whatever json format anyone might define, and a GUI editing interface. The latter means the language needs to also be able to describe mnemonic field names and values and support localised descriptions of them. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Lundy, Fastnet: Southeast veering southwest 7 to severe gale 9, decreasing 5 or 6 for a time. Rough or very rough. Rain or thundery showers. Moderate or good, occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
