On 1/15/26 2:14 AM, Pawel Kowalik wrote:
> Hi Andy
> 
> On 14.01.26 19:33, Andy Newton wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 14-01-2026 12:04 PM, Pawel Kowalik wrote:
>>> The clients MUST however accept responses containing other DNS record 
>>> types.
>>
>> IMO, that just means clients need to be aware of all RR types. There 
>> are, by my count, 47 different RR types. Requiring clients to support 
>> all 47 when they are only likely to encounter 3 seems a bit much. 
>> Would you be satisfied if this were a SHOULD? 
> 
> The intention was to use "accept" instead of "process" or alike to 
> indicate that the client shall at least be able to ignore and not break 
> in the presence of such values.
> It seems that I failed to find right formulation, so how about more 
> explicit version: "The clients MUST however accept responses containing 
> other DNS record types at minimum by ignoring their presence and not 
> breaking processing".

That works. Thanks, Pawel.

-andy

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