Re: [dane] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dane-srv-07.txt

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 26 August 2014 01:07 UTC

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I've been reading the dane-smtp draft and have a further thought...

On 8/19/14, 11:24 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
> On 7/24/14, 6:57 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

>> DNS lookup error handling is more comprehensively specified in the
>> SMTP draft, and perhaps should be borrowed from that document in
>> its entirety.
>
> Yes, Section 2.1 of draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane is indeed quite
> comprehensive. I am hesitant to copy it to draft-ietf-dane-srv primarily
> because copying introduces the possibility of divergence in text and
> secondarily because that text talks about SMTP. It seems safer to me if
> we point to that text from the dane-srv specification.

Upon reading the dane-smtp document again, I am thinking more strongly 
that the text in Section 2.1 applies to most application protocols, not 
only SMTP; thus I wonder if we can move it to a more general document.

Chairs & WG, what do you think?

Peter