Re: [DNSOP] status of the aname and svcb/httpsvc drafts

Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org> Thu, 20 February 2020 09:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] status of the aname and svcb/httpsvc drafts
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Matthijs,

On 20/02/2020 09.29, Matthijs Mekking wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/18/20 5:17 PM, Olli Vanhoja wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 16:20 Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de
>> <mailto:Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>      I asked myself about the status of the two drafts. I got the
>>      impression a little
>>      bit that the svcb/httpsvc draft successfully killed the aname draft,
>>      but is now
>>      dying slowly itself. It would be great if somebody could give me
>>      some insight
>>      whether the one or the other has still a measurable heartbeat, to
>>      stay with the
>>      allegories ;-)
>>
>>
>> SVCB is active almost every day of the week in GitHub.
>>
>> I can't talk on behalf of the authors of the ANAME draft, but to me it
>> seems that SVCB is getting more traction and it addresses the core
>> problems that ANAME was supposed to solve.
> 
> ANAME was supposed to solve the CNAME at the apex problem and mitigate
> against DNS vendor lock in. Both SVCB and HTTPSSCV do not fix this problem.
> 
> But yeah, the draft is pretty much dead due to lack of interest.

Is there a lack of interest? That's not clear to me. I think rather 
there are DNS folks who don't like ANAME for philosophical reasons and 
actively strive to prevent it moving forward.

Cheers,

--
Shane