Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: <draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx-05.txt> (A NULL MX Resource Record for Domains that Accept No Mail) to Proposed Standard

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In message <53C8394A.6080508@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Crocker writes:
> > Specifically referring to Section 3 of
> > draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx-05, there is not such thing as a "NULL
> > MX Resource Record".  There is only an MX Resource Record that
> > this specification proposes to use with a convention involving
> > specific content in the DATA.  One could call that many things,
> > but "NULL MX Resource Record" isn't one of them.  
> 
> By my reading of that section, it is defining the term, if only by
> virtue of the way it is used in the name of that section.
> 
> Perhaps your confusion would be resolved if the term had a comma in it,
> so:  NULL, MX Record?
> 
> In other words, NULL is an adjective within the term.
> 
> If you would prefer a different term, please suggest one.

A better description of the record is "No Service MX Record" or "No
Service Offered MX Record".

Mark
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