Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

On 3 mar 2012, at 16:56, ned+ietf(_at_)mauve(_dot_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:

> Doubtful. If a record needs to have, say, a priority field, or a port number,
> given the existence of MX, SRV, and various other RRs it's going to be very
> difficult for the designers of said field to argue that that should be done as
> ASCII text that has to be parsed out to use.
Agree with you but too many people today "just" program in perl och python 
where the parsing is just a cast or similar, and they do not understand this 
argument of yours -- which I once again completely stand behind myself.

   Patrik

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