On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:17:16AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > So some review of the DNSEXT-specified procedures and > expectations may be in order.
I encourage you, then, to organize the BOF session that will spin up the WG to achieve this. DNSEXT is only still alive because our last document hasn't been published. But more generally, as a practical matter it is better that people register their stuff with us than that they don't. We have, in the wild, a used EDNS0 option code that is all over the Internet. It is undocumented, and the code point isn't actually registered. That state of affairs is surely worse than that the IETF didn't get to provide good advice to authors. DNSEXT already tried to be the DNS cops, and has failed miserably, partly because of the usual get-off-my-lawn crowd and partly because people unfamiliar with the IETF find its procedures a little arcane. My view is that we need to be more pragmatic. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com
