22 Jul
2004
22 Jul
'04
11:52 a.m.
Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
This wording indeed has its origin in section 1 of http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ipv6/publications/v6rootglue.pdf
I had already read that paper. The term "reasonable queries" appears exactly once and even then it is not defined but states that "response sizes for reasonable queries do not exceed the 512 octet limit". That's where we started.
which explains why *any* query would be a stupid wording.
The rest of your paper suggests that "reasonable" may mean a query pattern that is found in real life at a (subset of the) root nameserver(s). At least that would sound not unreasonable to me. But we're talking about a policy document here - why does that use/have to use such fuzzy wording? -Peter