[DNSOP] Martin Duke's No Objection on draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-08: (with COMMENT)

[Martin Duke via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Martin Duke has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-08: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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To this DNS non-expert, I found it hard to follow the motivation for AliasMode.
In particular, I asked myself the following questions that could have been
answered in the Introduction or in (2.4.2):

- Why is it not OK for a CNAME to alias the apex, but OK for AliasMode to do
so? [having asked around, it's because CNAME aliases all the record types,
which is nonsensical for the apex, and AliasMode does not]

- For non-apex domains, under what conditions would I use AliasMode instead of
a CNAME? Is it just when I don't want to bring along record types besides A,
AAAA, and SVCB?