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Subject: re: compression in new DNS RR's
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Date: 22 Oct 90 19:11:50 GMT
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RFC-1183 defines experimental extensions to the DNS.  Let us suppose
that the time will come that the experiment is successful, and these
RRs are placed in the standards track, and after a year pop out as
an Internet standard.  It is hard to see how they will be able to
avoid being "well-known"  RR types at that point, and hence by
RFC-1123 must use compression for domain names.

That being the case, it would seem a little strange not to define the
experiment to require domain name compression.

Bob Braden