Re: [Add] Comparative DoH Discovery DNS RR Types

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Paul Vixie wrote:

> if on the other hand we're going to continue to evolve DNS in ways that
> include adding new RR types, and all the initiators who are stuck behind
> dumbass middleboxes who reject or butcher unknown RR types are going to fail
> hard and be excluded from the new applications and protocols in order to put
> more pressure on middlebox users/makers/distributors, we should say that.

I fully agree with Paul V here, but I do want to point out that in this
case, we _might_ want an exception to this because this is a mechanism
to find and get to a well working modern DNS resolver. We are specifically
using some crappy old hotspot technology DNS to gain access to proper
DNS.

For everything else, I agree to just do the RRTYPE. And once we have
the mechanism to get to a proper modern DNS resolver, never come to IETF
again with proposals that hack or overload existing RRTYPEs.

And even in this case, perhaps we should insist on defining both, so we
can kill the hack in 10-15 years.

Paul