Doug, No hat. On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:22:03PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Given that you can be 100% confident that the issue will be raised > during IETF LC, wouldn't it be better to hash it out in the WG (as > we have attempted to do)? Or is the WG's position, "we have no > intention of dealing with this unless we're forced to?" We _have_ hashed this out in the WG. As I have noted to you -- now on three separate lists -- the problem is that we have an actual interoperability bug in RFC 4408, and we need to fix it. The WG evaluated the various alternatives for how to solve that, and having performed the evaluation the group came to the conclusion that, _in this specific case_, deprecating RRTYPE 99 is the most reasonable course of action. I am not happy about this, but other analyses do not seem to be supported by any facts, nor by any argument that leads to the conclusion that an arrangement we would all like better has any chance of deployment. This is just a plain fact of the Internet, I think, and if you think it's not I would like some evidence, please. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx