On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:18:40AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > remove the rrtypes from the registry While it's good to see that the Internet Exemplary Taste-enForcers are alive and well, I would have an extremely strong objection to that approach. The DNS Extensions Working Group published an IANA Considerations document that was explicitly designed to permit registrations, and this is an example of that procedure working. If people had objections to that permissiveness, they didn't express them when the then-to-be-RFC6895 was last called. We have shipping implementations of DNS software that are using those code points. Removing the types from the registry does absolutely nothing for interoperation, doesn't actually help any of the privacy concerns that are being raised, doesn't solve anyone's problem, and sets up the registry as a crypto-normative repository -- a state of affairs that several people objected to when we tried to do this explicitly (I still bear the scars from that lashing). I am tired of the self-appointed Internet Cops attempting to regulate the taste of people wanting to use the DNS. If people don't like the allocation policy for DNS RRTYPEs, then they are free to spin up a new DNSTASTE WG and get the policy changed. I will attend the BoF and blow raspberries. But I look forward to the bright future in which the DNS contains only TXT records, which we retrieve via port 80 or (if lucky) port 443. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx