On 3 mar 2012, at 16:56, ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Doubtful. If a record needs to have, say, a priority field, or a port number, > given the existence of MX, SRV, and various other RRs it's going to be very > difficult for the designers of said field to argue that that should be done as > ASCII text that has to be parsed out to use. Agree with you but too many people today "just" program in perl och python where the parsing is just a cast or similar, and they do not understand this argument of yours -- which I once again completely stand behind myself. Patrik _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf