[ietf-dkim] a protocol needs a payload

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jim Fenton wrote:
> But -rfc4871-errata-02 defines this backwards.  The erratum makes 
> everything else internals, which eliminates a lot of information that 
> might be useful to a downstream assessor.  For example:
> [...]

Perhaps this is a terminology question.

In a DNS reply, is the "answer" section the payload, or does the payload 
include the header (e.g. the answer count, the authority count, the 
additional count, some flags)?