On 24/Feb/12 19:06, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, February 24, 2012 12:57:49 PM Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> >> How could you integrate a pre-allocated type when you don't know what >> its format is? If you knew how to do that, you could just deal with >> unknown RRTPYEs, and then having TYPE99 wouldn't be a problem anyway. > > I'd give them all a format of text and if a protocol needs something more > specific than that it can interpret it at the application level. Publishing RRs requires proper formatting, though. In most cases, tools could work equally well without knowing whether a type is registered or not. They could rely upon symbolic specifications, see http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-dnsextlang/ , leaving it to sysadmins to install official specs. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf