On 08/23/2013 04:34 PM, John Levine wrote: >> >> I don't know of any (at least ones that are used in the global dns >> namespace), and I would like to still not know of any in 2033. >> > > Since we agree that the issue you're worried about has not arisen even > once in the past decade, could you clarify what problem needs to be > solved here? > prevented, not solved. I would like to prevent someone from having to submit a draft specifying that in the case of TXT, the (name, class, type)-tuple should be extended with the first X octets from the RDATA fields, somewhere in the future, because client-side demuxing is getting too buggy and it seems like a good idea to select specific records in the DNS itself. Jelte