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Re: [dbound] On (not) moving forward

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Sun, 27 March 2016 01:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dbound] On (not) moving forward
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On 3/26/2016 4:15 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:01 AM, Marc Blanchet<marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca>  wrote:
>> >TXT records are way too overloaded. bad design. we shall stop using TXT records for extending the DNS.
> Agreed that it's a bad design, but I thought the debacle with the SPF RR and the continued assertions that it is too hard to deploy new RRs guaranteed we'd be using TXT records in the future (at least for anything that is expected to scale).


TXT records, under an _underscore-based naming scheme, works just fine. 
  Deploys easily.  Has no usage conflicts.

SRV.  DKIM. Etc. Etc. Etc...

Oh, and ummmmm...

      https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-crocker-dns-attrleaf/


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   Dave Crocker
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