RFC Errata
RFC 6844, "DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record", January 2013
Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 8659
Source of RFC: pkix (sec)
Errata ID: 4062
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Evan Hunt
Date Reported: 2014-07-24
Held for Document Update by: Kathleen Moriarty
Date Held: 2014-09-03
Section 5.1.1 says:
Value: Is the <character-string> encoding of the value field as specified in [RFC1035], Section 5.1.
It should say:
Value: The value field, expressed as a contiguous set of characters without interior spaces, or as a quoted string. See the the <character-string> format specified in [RFC1035], Section 5.1, but note that the value field contains no length byte and is not limited to 255 characters.
Notes:
<character-string> is defined in RFC 1035 as being limited to 255 characters
preceded by a length byte. Saying the field is encoded as a <character-string>
creates ambiguity as to whether the value field is intended to be size-limited.
RFC author agreed that it was okay to make this more explicit with the proposed text.