Add RFC reference to NSEC3 section in DNS Dev Docs #26184
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| As explained in [our blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/), Cloudflare's implementation of negative answers with NSEC is protected against zone walking[^1]. This implementation removes the need for NSEC3 and has been [proposed as an IETF standard](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-compact-denial-of-existence/). | ||
| As explained in [our blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/), Cloudflare's implementation of negative answers with NSEC is protected against zone walking[^1]. This implementation, also referred to as Compact Denial of Existance ([RFC 9824](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9824.html)), removes the need for NSEC3 and is significantly more efficient. |
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