Re: [dnsext] Draft: RRTYPE B - Web Resource Integrity

[James Addison <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:33 AM Klaus Malorny <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On 14.11.23 18:36, James Addison wrote:
> > A. Submission Date: N/A (draft / RFC)
> >
> > B.1 Submission Type:  [x] New RRTYPE  [ ] Modification to RRTYPE
> > B.2 Kind of RR:  [x] Data RR  [ ] Meta-RR
> >
> > C. Contact Information for submitter (will be publicly posted):
> >     Name: James Addison              Email Address: [e-mail]
> >     International telephone number: N/A
> >     Other contact handles: N/A
> >
> > D. Motivation for the new RRTYPE application.
> > [...]
>
> Hi,
>
> I cannot contribute to the question whether the proposed record type is
> necessary or not or whether it accomplishes its task. Since you don't
> give an explanation where the name "B" comes from, could you please give
> it a reasonable, perhaps mnemonic name? Since the types are represented
> by a numeric constant in the protocol, a longer name does not hurt in
> any way but makes the understanding and recognition a lot easier. Thanks.

Thanks, Klaus.  The choice of 'B' was fairly arbitrary as a
Latin-alphabet neighbour to 'A', communicating little about the
purpose of the record type except that both values are intended to be
used in combination, as adjacent items of information, during the
initial stages of a web session.

In retrospect the type name could also be accused of hiding the
protocol-specific nature of the proposal.  'WEBINTEGRITY' would be my
initial suggestion for a mnemonic.