Re: Last Call: The Kitchen Sink Resource Record to Proposed Standard

[Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud@TIS.COM>]

At 10:08 AM 4/29/97 +0200, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no wrote:
><image of a dusty, white-haired gentleman who has just crawled out of
>some long-forgotten attic inserted here>
>
>Gentlemen,
>despite the glee with which I greet the news that the Domain Name System
>is finally coming to its senses and embracing the glory of ASN.1, it is
>incumbent upon me to indicate a few problems with the language in which
>the description of the ASN.1 encoding of SINK records is described.
There is nothing in the specification that requires DNS to understand the 
internal format of the SINK record. From DNS point of view it is opaque
record.

By using the binary blob encoding in the master file all DNS servers and
resolvers 
care about is the size of the record. 

SINK record is for experimentation and distribution of arbitrary data. 
Accepting it and putting in identifiers for ASN.1 does not in any way indicate
support or approval of ASN.1, just an acknowledgement of its existence. 
>
>          Harald Tveit Alvestrand
>             reformed OSI bigot
>
>                  :-)
	Olafur