On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:48:09 EST, Dean Anderson said: > It seems quite odd that a "clarification" would put 77% of the existing > servers out of compliance, and only brings into compliance a currently > non-compliant implementation. I think it is unprecedented in the history > of any standards organization, not just the IETF. Such a significant > change is clearly a completely new version. Thus the widespread > complaints about fraudulent labeling and discription of the proposal. Granted, it's only a BCP, but see RFC2505. A large percentage of implementations were non-conforming to THAT too - but the situation has improved dramatically since then. And note that there are more servers for *THAT* protocol, from more vendors, than for DNS. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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