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It then turned out, however, that the expected benefit did not outweigh the complexity of
the process to deal with the new definitions. In particular, the resolution procedure with these
definitions would require radical changes in the stub resolver, and it was not trivial to deploy
the changes in existing stub resolver implementations.
After a long and heated discussion, the IETF finally decided to cancel the migration to these
new definitions [RFC3363]. Even though the IETF officially said the new definitions became
experimental, it was actually a wording compromise, and these definitions were essentially
deprecated. In fact,