On 12Aug25, Mark Andrews apparently wrote: > Every character. > Remember this is all presentation format. On the wire it is length tagged > binary data.
> > contradicts with practice where one can see using base64 in TXTs (SPF, DKIM¸ The use of base64 in DKIM was a conscious, self-imposed choice to declutter presentation and ensure parsing was readily accessible to simple, text-centric languages - even tho it was at the expense of bumping up against UDP limits. The original thought was that type-specific RRs would come along eventually that would use binary representations such as with SPF (Type99). Base64 was not chosen due to any underlying limitation of TXT - real or imagined. Mark. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
