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

[Tony Finch <[e-mail]>]

Vladimír Čunát <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The current ANAME draft specifies new behavior for resolvers, and there
> I'd expect even slower overall upgrades/deployment than in browsers. 

From my point of view that was the least important part of it,
an optional extra that might help out CDNs some time in the future,
and not necessary for deployment. Existing ANAME implementations
work fine without it.

The ANAME draft is far too complicated. I tried to simplify it but in
retrospect I didn't go far enough.

There might still be some value in an ANAME draft that simply specifies
the syntax of the record, just to provide portability of zone files
between implementations that currently have non-standard ANAME or ALIAS
records. In this boiled-dry draft, ANAME would have absolutely no special
normative semantics, just an informative description of the relationship
between the sibling and target address records with no description of how
that should be achieved. (Note a domain might have more than one ANAME,
for existing implementations that support round-robin ANAMEs.) So the
codepoint could be allocated via expert review rather than standards
action.

Tony.
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