Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-dnsext-unknown-rrs - Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record Types to Proposed Standard

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <200305061532.LAA26387@ietf.org>, IESG Secretary writes:
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It's clearly necessary to have something like that, but frankly, the 
document scares me; it retroactively changes the behavior required for 
older RFCs.  I sure with Mockapetris had thought of saying this.

Am I offbase?  Is this much better -- or much worse -- than I fear?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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