[atlas] Thoughts on allowing newer DNS RR queries?

antony at ripe.net:
> Hi Mark,
> what is the specific RR query you are looking for?

> currently we support a bunch of them UDP or TCP. Here is a list.

> in class IN
> A, AAAA, ANY, CNAME, DS, DNSKEY, MX, NS, NSEC, NSEC3, PTR, RRSIG, SOA, SRV, NAPTR. 

> class CHAOS 
> hostname.bind, id.server, version.bind, version.server 

I suggest allowing queries, not from mnemonics, but from ID-number. Any
unsigned 16-bit number should be allowed, both for CLASS and for RRTYPE.
The result can be presented as an ASCII-fied blob (BASE64?  uuencode?
Motorla S-records? ...) for parsing by interested parties.

DNS infrastructure is supposed to be blackbox store-and-forward. So
should Atlas be.

Yes, I understand there may be design problems with this. I'm stating
the desired long-term goal. And keeping mnemonics for the most common
cases is of course desireable, but if there are (e.g.) space restriction
in the poor little dongles, I suggest asking by number only, and have a
front-end system that does necessary translations.

Maybe I'm stating the obvious ... :-/

				Cheers,
				  /Liman