On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:12:13AM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote:
Question #1: Is such a signal needed today? If we look at the 1694
Proposed Standards, are we seeing a lack of implementation due to lack
of stability? I would claim that there are quite a number of examples
to the contrary (but see below).
In connection with that question, I'll observe that a very large
number of the DNS protocol documents have not advanced along the
standards track, and efforts to do something about that state of
affairs have not been very successful. In addition, any time there is
an effort to make a change to anything already deployed is met by
arguments that we shouldn't change the protocol in even the slightest
detail, because of all the deployed code. (I've been known to make
that argument myself.)
I don't know whether the DNS is special in this regard, though I have
doubts.
A
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