Re: weighting transports
Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us> Fri, 02 April 2010 13:29 UTC
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On Apr 1, 2010, at 14:59, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote: > Sometimes a client needs to determine which transport or technology an > application server prefers for a given service type. For examples, an > email service might be provided via both POP and IMAP or a website > might > be available via both TCP and SCTP. > > The approach taken in draft-daboo-srv-email is to check multiple SRV > records (here IMAP would be preferred): > > _imap._tcp SRV 0 1 143 imap.example.com. > _pop3._tcp SRV 10 1 110 pop3.example.com. > > The approach taken in draft-yourtchenko-tran-announce-dns is to > define a > new DNS RR (here SCTP would be preferred): > > _http.www XPORT 5 _sctp > XPORT 9 _tcp > > I think it would be good to come to rough consensus (if possible) > on a > preferred approach in the Applications Area. > > Peter I glanced at both drafts and did not see a discussion about why neither RFC 3958 nor RFC 4848 are sufficient for the purposes being described. Perhaps that is a discussion I missed elsewhere. I believe Philip Hallam-Baker put forward a very similar SRV proposal years ago but don't recall what happened to it. Personally, I think it is time for the IETF to consider a new record type to simplify this type of DNS discovery if NAPTR and SRV records are considered too cumbersome for this purpose. -andy
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