The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record Types' <draft-ietf-dnsext-unknown-rrs-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the DNS Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Thomas Narten and Erik Nordmark. Technical Summary Extending the Domain Name System with new Resource Record (RR) types currently requires changes to name server software. This document specifies the changes necessary to allow future DNS implementations to handle new RR types transparently. Working Group Summary There was WG consensus to advance the document. Protocol Quality The specification has been reviewed for the IESG by Erik Nordmark.
