Re: [dnsext] Some thoughts on the updated aliasing draft

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

> Date: 26 Mar 2011 20:33:36 -0000
> From: "John Levine" <[e-mail]>
> 
> ...  In particular, it's quite possible for the DNS to have one
> canonical record with everything else pointing to it, but at the
> application level all the names look the same.  If I were hacking on
> my web or mail servers to handle this stuff, a simple way to do the
> configuration would be to configure in the canonical name, and then
> set a flag saying also to handle all of the aliases.

if we're allowed by the people asking for this to require dns client
libraries and applications to have to be changed to handle a new kind
of canonicalization before they'll be able to handle the new definition
of "sameness" then this is a practical approach.

'dns client libraries and applications' means the whole internet, so i
naturally assumed that this approach was out of scope.