> 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. Regardless of the language you program in, you still have to get your proposal approved. For that to happen the folks who review these things would in effect be conceding that there is in fact a major deployment problem out there. That's the point I was trying to make, not that people wouldn't argue for this approach. I am unaware of any counterexamples that have actually made it through the process, but if they exist feel free to point them out. Ned _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf