On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:10:24PM +1100,
Mark Andrews <marka(_at_)isc(_dot_)org> wrote
a message of 45 lines which said:
Randy claimed that presentation formats were not standardised. They
are. Randy and others claimed that the presentation formats were
owned by BIND and they are not.
A better description of the situation would be "there is a standard
format, standardized in section 5 of RFC 1035 and in many other RFC
for new RR types" and "its standard description is quite poor, with
many unspecified things, so, in practice, a zone file accepted by a
compliant implementation may not always work with another". Today, the
IESG would never accept the sloppy language of RFC 1035.
Also, some programs added non-standard extensions to this format (such
as BIND's $TTL).
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