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Re: DS-13: record ordering


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Sam Weiler wrote:

> DS-13 section 2.2 says "...MUST include the following RRsets ... in
> this order..."  Does the order really matter?  Is there something that
> will break if they're reordered?  Should the "in this order" be
> dropped?
>

No, this is to protect old resolvers, they see NS before DS.
We had some experiance with this when NXT was originally introduced,
in order to not kill old resolvers the NXT had to have a SOA in
the Authority section. The SOA is redundant to the resolvers that
understand NXT.

	Olafur


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