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        RFC 3445
                                        
        Title:      Limiting the Scope of the KEY Resource Record (RR)
        Author(s):  D. Massey, S. Rose
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       December 2002
        Mailbox:    masseyd@isi.edu, scott.rose@nist.gov
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 20947
        Updates:    2535
                                        
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-dnsext-restrict-key-for-dnssec-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3445.txt


This document limits the Domain Name System (DNS) KEY Resource Record
(RR) to only keys used by the Domain Name System Security Extensions
(DNSSEC).  The original KEY RR used sub-typing to store both DNSSEC
keys and arbitrary application keys.  Storing both DNSSEC and
application keys with the same record type is a mistake.  This
document removes application keys from the KEY record by redefining
the Protocol Octet field in the KEY RR Data.  As a result of removing
application keys, all but one of the flags in the KEY record become
unnecessary and are redefined.  Three existing application key
sub-types are changed to reserved, but the format of the KEY record is
not changed.  This document updates RFC 2535.

This document is a product of the DNS Extensions Working Group of the
IETF. 

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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