<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Dick Franks <<a href="mailto:rwfranks@acm.org">rwfranks@acm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 20 December 2012 07:29, Calle Dybedahl <<a href="mailto:calle.dybedahl@init.se">calle.dybedahl@init.se</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">You're making assumptions about how people will want to use your module, and by doing so unnecessarily limiting what it can be used for.<br></blockquote><br>I am making the assumption that end users want what Net::DNS claims to<br>provide: Perl interface to the Domain Name System.<br><br>The internal components like Header.pm exist to facilitate that<br>primary mission. Injecting corrupt packets into the global DNS is a<br>violation of the relevant standards; the design should, where<br>possible, minimise that risk.<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I agree with the primary mission and that the primary mission is first consideration. </div><div><br></div><div>However, IMHO there is a bonafide secondary mission. Therefore we should not make it impossible for people that have a genuine requirement for injecting corrupt packets to the wire (e.g. for testing, troubleshooting, and other usefulness). So I wouldn't want us to dismiss that angle to easily.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--Olaf</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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