Hi both,

Thanks for this feedback, I will incorporate it.

G.

> On 15 Jan 2026, at 6:43 pm, Andy Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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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Gavin Brown
Principal Engineer, Global Domains & Strategy
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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