<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Olafur,<br><br></div>Olaf Kolkman and I discussed this prickly topic a few years ago. The decision reached then was to leave the distributions as they now are. Nothing has changed to invalidate the arguments on which that decision was based.<br><br></div><div>In many ways it would be far more convenient if the two distributions could be integrated. It certainly would make maintenance and regression testing significantly easier.<br><br></div><div>However, there are at least 30 countries where the import and/or use of strong encryption is illegal, can only be done under license, or where the legal position is uncertain.<br><br></div><div>Combining the two distributions would either completely preclude the use of Net::DNS in some territories or expose users to the risk of prosecution because the distribution contains illegal content even if not required for whatever it is they are attempting to do.<br><br></div><div>Packaging Net::DNS::SEC as an optional extension maximises the availability of Net::DNS and ensures that enabling the cryptographic components requires a deliberate installation step for which the individual user then becomes legally responsible.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dick<br><span><font color="#888888">________________________<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 January 2015 at 15:49, Olafur Gudmundsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ogud@ogud.com" target="_blank">ogud@ogud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">While slightly off topic.<br>
Are there plans to roll Net::DNS::SEC into this distribution,<br>
in modern times it is strange to have DNSSEC records in one distribution but newly defined records in this one.<br>
DNSSEC is now stable protocol and should be considered integral part of DNS.<br>
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Olafur<br>
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> On Jan 13, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Willem Toorop <willem@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:<br>
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> Dear users of Net::DNS,<br>
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> We have a candidate for the upcoming single bugfix/feature release 0.82<br>
> of Net::DNS.<br>
><br>
> This release adds support for upstream nameservers to be specified as<br>
> IPv6 link-local addresses with scope_id; either directly on Resolver<br>
> construction or with the nameservers method, or via a nameserver keyword<br>
> in a resolver configuration file ( /etc/resolv.conf ).<br>
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> Please review carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will<br>
> follow Tuesday the 20th of January 2015.<br>
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> link <a href="http://www.net-dns.org/download/Net-DNS-0.81_01.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://www.net-dns.org/download/Net-DNS-0.81_01.tar.gz</a><br>
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> Changes<br>
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> Fix <a href="http://rt.cpan.org" target="_blank">rt.cpan.org</a> #100385<br>
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> Support for IPv6 link-local addresses with scope_id<br>
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