[DNSOP] Re: How black are black lies, really?

"John Levine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dnsop
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that Petr Å paÄ ek <[email protected]> said:
>a) Maybe we have specs (do we?) which depends on NXDOMAIN in specific 
>situations but they did not account for RFC 9824. Sounds like bug in 
>these hypothetical specs because restoration is not mandatory in any way.
>Possible course of action: Fix outside of this group.

Of course we do, most notably RFC 8020. I think we can excuse the
authors' inability to peer into the future.

If you gratuitously turn NXDOMAIN into NODATA you're going to break a
lot of software. I am astonished everyone here isn't already aware of
that.

>c) Update RFC 9824 to make RCODE restoration mandatory and wait a decade 
>or two to get it deployed.

That is probably the least bad resolution to this self-inflicted injury.

R's,
John

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