Quoting Paul Jakma (paulj at alphyra.ie):
> you think? how do you explain AXFR, NOTIFY and IXFR being part of the
> DNS protocol then?
In fairness, from an IETF legalist's perspective, they're all standards
_track_ RFCs: That is, drafts. Bernstein and devotees thus argue that
they're BINDisms. Much time gets wasted begging the assumption of
standards-formalism.
My view is that they're consensus standards in the only way that really
matters: They work; they're interoperable; they're in use. If your DNS
daemon doesn't support them, then you _may_ (depending on circumstances
of deployment) have a problem.
That is not to say that they're required for satisfactory nameservice.
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