On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:10:24PM +1100, Mark Andrews <marka@xxxxxxx> wrote a message of 45 lines which said: > Randy claimed that presentation formats were not standardised. They > are. Randy and others claimed that the presentation formats were > owned by BIND and they are not. A better description of the situation would be "there is a standard format, standardized in section 5 of RFC 1035 and in many other RFC for new RR types" and "its standard description is quite poor, with many unspecified things, so, in practice, a zone file accepted by a compliant implementation may not always work with another". Today, the IESG would never accept the sloppy language of RFC 1035. Also, some programs added non-standard extensions to this format (such as BIND's $TTL). _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf