Re: documentation vs specification

Jeffrey Hutzelman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.heimdal.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 18:17 +0200, Harald Barth wrote:
> > Credential cache and keytab file formats are not protocols.  They are
> > implementation specific data formats in exactly the same fashion as the
> > krb5 api is an implementation specific api.  These are outside the
> > bounds of what the IETF standardizes.
> 
> The zone file specification in RFC1035 comes to my mind...

Yes; that's an excellent example of something that should never have
been the subject of standards work.
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