Re: axfr-clarify's fraudulent claims of consensus

[Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>]

> ... made the same design decision.  To both me and the BIND 9 team, it
> was the obvious design, and the BIND 8 behavior was an obvious
> implementation bug.

i just want to say, bind8's treatment of zone boundaries is terrible,
even though it's better in a dozen small ways than bind4's from which
it came.  my advice is, if you use bind, upgrade to bind9.

> No servers will need changing if we standardize AXFR as I propose,
> either.  There is no AXFR interoperability issue either way.  The
> only difference (other than IXFR working better) is that a different
> set of servers is declared non-compliant.

agreed.  i am in strong support of the gustafsson axfr-clarify draft.