Thanks Donald,

I think merging this into draft-eastlake-rfc6895bis-iana-01 is a fine idea.

I'm also good with 129-144 for private q & meta types.

Shumon.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM Donald Eastlake <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've read the private-metatypes draft and support the idea.
>
> My only comment is that, to increase backwards compatibility, the range
> for private use Q and Meta Types should be from the existing range for such
> RRs. So the private use range could be, say 129-144 which also minimizes
> numbering discontinuities. (And the existing 65280-65534 private use range
> should have its description narrowed to specify that it is for data RRs.
>
> This could be merged with draft-eastlake-rfc6895bis-iana-01.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM Shumon Huque <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM Ray Bellis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 20/10/2025 15:36, Roy Arends wrote:
>>> >
>>> > First presented at the DD WG, I've now re-submitted the latest
>>> > version of Delegation Extensions (including minor updates) to the
>>> > datatracker with a new title to reflect "DNSOP". In short: draft-
>>> > arends-dnsop-delext-00.txt replaces draft-ppr-dd-auth-delegation-
>>> > types
>>> >
>>>
>>> I support the concept of a range of RR values reserved for the
>>> parent-side of the zone cut, such that DNS implementations can process
>>> future ones automatically instead of having to have special-case code
>>> for each one.
>>>
>>
>> I support this too.
>>
>> I note also Shumon's draft wanting to carve out a sub-range of the
>>> private RR values for private / testing meta-RRs.
>>>
>>
>> For those who haven't seen it, that draft is:
>>
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-huque-dnsop-private-metatypes-01
>>
>> On whether these two features merit documents of their own I have no
>>> particular opinion, but either way the IANA registry for which the
>>> reserved ranges are enumerated in RFC6895 will need updating, ideally
>>> (IMHO) in an RFC6895(bis).
>>>
>>
>> One of the 'Open Questions' in our draft asked exactly that question.
>> Ideally,
>> RFC6895 would be the best place to make any updates to the RR type space
>> classification. But I'll note that both these drafts go a bit beyond IANA
>> considerations, e.g. Roy's draft talks about interaction with the
>> proposed DE
>> EDNS header flag. And mine talks about the correct response behavior for
>> unknown Q and Meta-Types (I was contemplating renaming our doc to 'On Q
>> and Meta-Types in the DNS" to acknowledge the expanded scope.
>>
>> Shumon.
>>
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