Re: [DNSOP] why did SRV care to avoid conflicts

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Mark Andrews wrote:
> But the real reason for using _blah is so you can split ownership of
> tcp.com from _tcp.com which you couldn’t do if the well know label names
> used the preferred name format (LDH) is it would be “tcp” rather than “_tcp”.

in my day, COM wasn't a service identifier, and its subdomains were all 
delegation points, so all had NS RRsets, some had DS RRsets, and if one 
wanted a service name like MARKA.COM, the SRV named _TCP (or just TCP, 
if i were doing it today) would be inside the MARKA zone, as a child of 
the apex.

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P Vixie