Subject: Protocol Action: Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record Types to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:02:11 -0400

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Handling of Unknown DNS 
Resource Record Types' <draft-ietf-dnsext-unknown-rrs-06.txt> as a 
Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the DNS Extensions 
Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Thomas Narten and Erik Nordmark. 
   
Technical Summary
   
Extending the Domain Name System with new Resource Record (RR) types
currently requires changes to name server software. This document
specifies the changes necessary to allow future DNS implementations
to handle new RR types transparently.
   
Working Group Summary
   
There was WG consensus to advance the document.
   
Protocol Quality
   
The specification has been reviewed for the IESG by Erik Nordmark.