Re: [apps-discuss] For consideration as an appsawg document: draft-hoffman-server-has-tls-03.txt

[Benson Schliesser <[e-mail]>]

(sorry for resending my previous note, by accident...)

On Jan 27, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:

>>> 6.  Along these lines we should view this as an evolution of SRV.
>> 
>> Errr, just to be clear: are you proposing that this be an update to
>> RFC 2782? If so, please give a straw-man for how that would work. I
>> don't see how SRV records are extensible.
>> 
> 
> Were there a way to capture SRV functionality while offering the HASTLS
> capability, then we could deprecate SRV.  I would only recommend doing
> so, however, for a more generalized approach.  I think you're really
> quite close to this already, especially given your answer to Patrik
> (which I liked).

Of course, SRV could be deprecated if its capability is performed by the HASTLS mechanism.  But "service discovery" is one thing, and "TLS fallback indication" is another.  In terms of a more generalized approach, creating SRV++ would be a better way to think of the problem.

Cheers,
-Benson