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Re: [dnsext] DTLS alternative to DNS-Curve

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Thu, 16 September 2010 23:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] DTLS alternative to DNS-Curve
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On 2010-09-16, at 17:18, Nicholas Weaver wrote:

> Overall, this suggests the following:
> 
> New RTYPEs can be used, but reluctantly.

To me what you described is actually an argument to promote the use of new RTYPEs, not to discourage it.

Not seeing widespread of new RTYPEs in the wild is presumably what led to the entrenched belief that it's reasonable to filter on RTYPE in middleboxes. The way to stamp out this thinking is to reverse the trend.


Joe

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