Re: [DNSOP] meta issue: WG to discuss DNS innovation (was Re: draft-hzhwm-start-tls-for-dns-00)

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

>The largest problem for IETF and DNS innovation is that the consensus in
>IETF seems to be that innovation of DNS is not possible unless it
>involves reuse of the TXT resource record.

Yes, sort of.  The consensus in one part of the IETF is that adding
new RR types is too hard due to DNS server upgrades and particularly
to the web crudware that most people use to provision their DNS.  The
consensus in another part of the IETF is that adding new RR types is
trivial, and anyone who thinks otherwise is stupid.  (I oversimplify
but not by much.)

I've had a draft kicking around for a while, with recent additions
from Vixie, of an RR config language to allow the DNS to be largely
self-describing, with most new RR types having names and formats
published in a well known place so the servers and crudware can handle
new RRs without software upgrades (after a one-off upgrade to handle
the config language itself) or config changes.

The responses to the draft have been most educational.

R's,
John