Paul Hoffman writes:
> Greetings again. draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale has a few places where
> it suggest ranges for values, but these suggestions are vague.

"Vague"?  They give hard numbers with the intended flexibility for the
considerations that might go into them.

> Could be:
>       Values SHOULD
>       be capped to 604,800 seconds, and implementations SHOULD allow
>       lower values to be configured by operators.

Do we really have to suggest to implementers that this be
configurable, especially when all of the major packages already have
such a knob, afaik?

> Could be:
>    When returning a response containing stale records, the recursive
>    resolver MUST set the TTL of each expired record in the message to a
>    value greater than 0, with 30 seconds RECOMMENDED. Implementations
>    SHOULD allow values above 0, but SHOULD NOT allow values greater
>    than 600 seconds.

This one looks useful, suggesting a reasonable cap on the order of
minutes rather than much longer.  I'm happy to make the change.

>    The maximum stale timer should be
>    configurable, and defines the length of time after a record expires
>    that it should be retained in the cache.  The value SHOULD be
>    one day, and SHOULD NOT be longer than 3 days.

All 2119 normative language was removed from that section.

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