On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
I take it that unless I can point to some specific situation in which some specific application or user community is negatively impacted by this, you'll go on assuming that this deviant behaviour is merely an exercise in creativity. The way to go about this is to see if breaking existing practice will break current implementations and plausible future implementations.
we call it 'architecture' when we can see it won't work from flaws in the design. we call it a stupid mess when we test a broken design because we lack architectural judgement.
Ahh, and you're the one deciding if conversation is allowed to happen and what specifically is said on the list Paul keeps mentioning to discuss DNS evolution? No thanks.