Keith ``7 bits forever!'' Moore writes:
the religious issue is 'thou shall not break compatibility with the
current-IETF-standards-conforming installed base'. and it's a damn
fine religion, if you ask me.
Hey, Keith, have you ever heard of ``AXFR clarify''?
It's an effort by the BIND company to force everybody to imitate BIND 9.
They admit that their draft prohibits the conforming behavior of most
existing DNS server installations---including all BIND 8 installations!
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfr-clarify.html has details.
Why aren't you yelling ``Thou shalt not break compatibility with the
current-IETF-standards-conforming installed base'' in that case?
---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago