[dns-wg] Re: [db-wg] Proposal to change the syntax of "nserver:" attribute
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Doug Barton
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Fri May 26 00:46:48 CEST 2006
Jeroen Massar wrote: > Compressed/uncompressed is a representation method, the parser which > reads/exports into/from the database should not give anything about the > external representation and can represent it differently internally. > If you would argue for uncompressed being easier to parse by a program, > then one should maybe better propose to store it completely in binary, > hashtrees etc come to mind ;) Programs should use the OS provided, > getaddrinfo() and inet_ntop() functions, these afaik on all platforms > support any input format and print out usually compressed formats. Assuming all elements of your argument above are correct, I believe that this supports my suggestion. If you can deal with the addresses programatically regardless of the storage method, this is an argument (in my mind/experience) for storing them in a consistent, lowest common denominator format (read, human-parsable), such as the full, uncompressed form. > One thing there though, if you query the RIPE database, which I tend to > do a lot, inet6num's are always different, even when created by the NCC, > the format is sort of the same, but the contents are wildly variating, > sometimes in compressed format, otherwise not, sometimes caps, sometimes > not. It would be great to have a single format coming out of whois, if > that would only help hurt the eyes a bit. Yes, this is exactly the kind of problem I'd like to see avoided, given that this part of the db must be rewritten anyway. > Thus my 'vote': represent with compressed lowercase. > But I could live with uncompressed too, as long as it would be done then > also everywhere in a consistent fashion. On that we are in complete agreement. Regards, Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough
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