Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2538bis-04.txt
Newsgroups: gmane.ietf.dnsext
Date: 2005-09-06 09:59:20 GMT (3 years, 12 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours and 38 minutes ago)
[minor issues, resent to the list since we're past WGLC] Simon, > http://josefsson.org/rfc2538bis/ two more issues: > Following some of the guidelines below may result in the use in DNS names > with characters that require DNS quoting, which is to use a backslash > followed by the octal representation of the ASCII code for the character > (e.g., \000 for NULL). This has come up multiple times and I'm not sure about the right answer, but section 5.1 of RFC 1035 claims that the values are decimal. Perhaps here it's best to say "... require DNS quoting as per section 5.1 of RFC 1035" which also covers the "\." case. > Implementations SHOULD use the purpose-based owner name guidelines described > in this document, and MAY use CNAMEs of content-based owner names (or other > names), pointing to the purpose-based owner name. change to "... use CNAME RRs at ..." since the "CNAMEs of ... owner names" are already what's in the RDATA section, i.e. "the CNAME" is the target, not the owner. -Peter -- to unsubscribe send a message to namedroppers-request <at> ops.ietf.org with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/>