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Re: [dane] FYI: New Version Notification for draft-hoffman-dane-smime-04.txt

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 10 September 2012 23:09 UTC

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On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:22 PM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:

> +1 on adopting.
> 
> As for the draft, do we really need a new RR?
> 
> If the content is the same as TLSA, just with a different naming scheme,
> why not just use TLSA?

Because the semantics of the record are different. The TLSA record was specifically defined for TLS.

> A requirement to update dns software for every new use case might be an

> excessive burden on the community.

Could be, but overloading the TLSA record could have bad side-effects as well. I would rather err on the side of safety here.

--Paul Hoffman

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