Camels are indeed great animals and they can be loaded until eventually one more insignificant straw breaks their back. I guess that is were Bert thinks the DNS is at now and I don’t completely disagree
Joao > On 20 Mar 2018, at 15:12, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 07:29:50AM +0000, > tjw ietf <[email protected]> wrote > a message of 94 lines which said: > >> At the end of Tuesday's session we're having Bert Hubert from Power DNS >> give a talk on what he views "The Camel". > > Unlike the popular saying > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee#Aphorisms>, camels > are extraordinary animals, well adapted to their harsh environment > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel#Ecological_and_behavioral_adaptations> > and usable for many things, even war > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_cavalry>. If the DNS is a camel, > this is great! > >> "In past years, DNS has been enhanced with DNSSEC, QName >> Minimization, [...] > > I dispute the idea that QNAME minimization is an addition. It is not a > change in the protocol, and it was even possible from the beginning > (Section 5.3.3 of [RFC1034] or Section 7.2 of [RFC1035] do NOT mandate > QNAME maximimization, it is just an accidental evolution). > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
