On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 02:09:14PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> That’s one of the goals of the document - saying: “it’s ok to not
> implement those RR Types, and it’s ok to break if you receive them"
We need to state clearly what is meant by "ok to break".
I described my preferred approach as an implementer upthread. Let me
state it again more formally and let people knock it down:
0. types will be flagged as obsolete/deprecated in the IANA registry,
and the following guidance is given to DNS implementors in the handling
of obsolete/deprecated RR types:
1. auth servers SHOULD log a warning when loading zones that contain
obsolete/deprecated rrtypes.
2. responders SHOULD NOT compress rdata when rendering obsolete/deprecated
type records to wire format.
3. queriers which receive obsolete/deprecated type records MAY interpret
them as unknown type records (rfc 3597), and MUST NOT interfere with
their transmission.
3a. note that the choice to parse obsolete/deprecated MAY be contingent
on whether the rdata is compressed: an obsolete type record MAY be
parsed as a known type if its rdata is uncompressed, but as an
unknown type otherwise.
4. validators and signers SHOULD treat rdata for obsolete/deprecated types
as opaque with respect to canonical RR ordering and deduplication
--
Evan Hunt -- [email protected]
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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