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Re: Split the IANA functions?

2014-01-08 17:22:30
So that I don't have to keep replying to this off list:

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:07:12PM -0800, manning bill wrote:

There can be/ have been multiple roots in the DNS - HOWEVER, there is a 
always a single root _per class_.
One root for IN, one root for CH, one for HS,  etc…

Right.  Except it turns out that CNAME and DNAME are specified in
terms of names and not name+class, so at the very least the class
boundaries are not as clean as we would like.

As you note, in any case, all anyone uses is IN.  

Best,

A


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