Re: [DNSOP] SRV-related _underscore registry (was Re: Call for Adoption: draft-crocker-dns-attrleaf)

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> The other which I prefer is simply to put the four _proto tags into
>> the new underscore registry.  Add a note that they have subnames from
>> the RFC 6335 services registry, and for anew new protocol tags try to to
>> keep the protocol names consistent with the keywords in the protocol
>> number registry.
>
>This, exactly.
>
>I'd suggest that perhaps the keywords from the protocol registry (or a
>canonical representation thereof, for those that don't match LDH) should
>actually be reserved ?

If you take a look at that registry, it's a stroll down memory lane.
You'll find NVP-II from RFC 741 in 1977, PUP and XNS-IDP from Xerox in
1980, and other great hits from networking history.

I really doubt that people are going to ever publish _pup SRV records
other than perhaps on April 1.

R's,
John