[dns-operations] Signaling client protocol to authority

[Paul Vixie]

> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:30:46 -0500
> From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis at neustar.biz>
> 
> >argument when i say, "just tell the truth and let clients sort it out."
> 
> What is "the truth?"

dns is a distributed, coherent, autonomous, reliable database.  "the truth"
means the universal mapping <time-of-query,qname,qtype,qclass> => {truth}.