draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header and draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2538bis-09.txt

Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> Thu, 03 November 2005 19:15 UTC

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Subject: draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header and draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2538bis-09.txt
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Hi there,

The openpgp-mailnews-header defines a mechanism for senders to notify
recipients of both their preferences (w.r.t OpenPGP keys) and the keying
material to be used (e.g. keyid).

dnsext-rfc2538bis defines a mechanism where keying material is stored
within the DNS (e.g. OpenPGP).  The overlap here is that users may wish
to store their key in the DNS (via dnsext-rfc2538bis) and refer to them
using openpgp-mailnews-header.

Since openpgp-mailnews-header specifies using a URI to refer to the
location, it would seem -- to me at least -- that there needs to be some
kind of URI specification to allow you to refer to DNS resource records.

Is there one already, or work underway to produce a DNS URI spec.?

Cheers,
Anand

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