<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(This is kind of off-topic for RRL, it relates to the gangster-on-gangster violence that arises when "where do we publish" comes up.)</div><br><div><div>On Apr 21, 2013, at 17:37, Jay Daley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I agree. This is an implementation issue not a protocol issue. But there is a benefit to users of DNS servers knowing whether feature X on one implementation is identical, equivalent or similar to feature Y on another implementation. A role for a different standards body?<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Documentation good. No documentation bad. What's interesting is the last question. The IETF has become the de facto go-to organization for Internet documents. I have been very frustrated with the output of the IETF for some time. I don't want to abandon the IETF but "it's become a bad marriage."</div><div><br></div><div>What can be done (in theory) - RFCs can be submitted by individuals (in theory, separate from the IETF) but that hasn't worked smoothly. I think there's a growing realization of that and that might change (that is, individual submissions have a place).</div><div><br></div><div>NANOG has started "BCOP" - Best Current Operating Practices, which might be helpful. ISOC has also taken a look at some way to establish a BCP series for operators.</div><div><br></div><div>I really think that a severing of the IETF from the DNS operating community is a bad thing. But "documentation good" means there has to be a venue for a reviewed and permanently (relatively) reference-able set of documents like this.</div><br><div>
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