Subject: [dnsext] another hornets nest

From: Edward Lewis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:49:06 -0500

In http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters there is this text:

# Note: In [RFC1002], two types are defined.  It is not clear that these
# are in use, though if so their assignment does conflict with those above.
#         NB	32	NetBIOS general Name Service
#         NBSTAT	33	NetBIOS NODE STATUS

For reference, in RFC 1002:

#             PROTOCOL STANDARD FOR A NetBIOS SERVICE
#                     ON A TCP/UDP TRANSPORT:
#                     DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

#   Please send written comments to:
#
#           Karl Auerbach
#           Epilogue Technology Corporation
#           P.O. Box 5432
#           Redwood City, CA   94063
#
#   Please send online comments to:
#
#           Avnish Aggarwal
#                   Internet: [email-masked]
#                   Usenet:   ucbvax!mtxinu!excelan!avnish

#   The following individuals have contributed to the development of
#   this RFC:
#
#   Avnish Aggarwal       Arvind Agrawal        Lorenzo Aguilar
#   Geoffrey Arnold       Karl Auerbach         K. Ramesh Babu
#   Keith Ball            Amatzia Ben-Artzi     Vint Cerf
#   Richard Cherry        David Crocker         Steve Deering
#   Greg Ennis            Steve Holmgren        Jay Israel
#   David Kaufman         Lee LaBarre           James Lau
#   Dan Lynch             Gaylord Miyata        David Stevens
#   Steve Thomas          Ishan Wu

#   RESOURCE RECORD RR_TYPE field definitions:
#
#   Symbol      Value   Description:
#
#   A          0x0001   IP address Resource Record (See REDIRECT NAME
#                       QUERY RESPONSE)
#   NS         0x0002   Name Server Resource Record (See REDIRECT
#                      NAME QUERY RESPONSE)
#   NULL       0x000A   NULL Resource Record (See WAIT FOR
#                       ACKNOWLEDGEMENT RESPONSE)
#   NB         0x0020   NetBIOS general Name Service Resource Record
#                       (See NB_FLAGS and NB_ADDRESS, below)
#   NBSTAT     0x0021   NetBIOS NODE STATUS Resource Record (See NODE
#                       STATUS RESPONSE)

The A, NS, and NULL record are still around and appear in other RFCs. 
But NB and NBSTAT apparently have been forgotten.

To clean up the IANA registry, should RFC 1002 be moved to historic, 
with it's "claims" to 0x20 and 0x21 (decimal 32 and 33) relinquished?

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