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Update FORMAT.md to reflect recent changes
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@@ -62,9 +62,8 @@ characters that overlap with any structural characters and in practice, it
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really never happens. The same applies to base64 sequences, which was
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specifically designed to encode binary data in printable ASCII characters. To
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quote a field and include whitespace is more-or-less instructing the parser
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to not ignore it. The current implementation is such that any field may be
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quoted, but it MUST actually disallow fields that cannot contain structural
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characters to be quoted.
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to not ignore it. Fields that cannot contain structural characters, i.e.
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anything other than domain names and text strings, MUST not be quoted.
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> BIND does not accept quoted fields for A or NS RDATA. TTL values in SOA
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> RDATA, base64 Signature in DNSKEY RDATA, as well as type, class and TTL

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