[DNSOP] Re: Language negotiation in draft-ietf-dnsop-structu red-dns-error

Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
    > It is sufficient to include a language tag alongside the freeform text
    > content.  A DNS server operator can - at their discretion - provide
    > freeform diagnostic information for someone on the other end.  That's
    > useful.

Fair enough.

    > I will observe that other protocols that offer freeform text fields for
    > diagnostic messages don't bother with the language tag.  That's OK
    > because this text will never be put in front of an end user.  So the
    > language tag is above and beyond.

I think that the text will be convey'ed by the end user (possibly via their
IT, and others), to a DNS operator and/or creator of whatever policy is being
enforced.   This is akin to SMTP.  My experience (with SMTP) is that having
these errors localized is not useful for those in the complaint reporting chain.

(In SMTP, the 400 temporary errors, even without any language hurldes, and
explicit "efforts will continue" are regularly mis-understood)

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