Re: [DNSOP] Fundamental ANAME problems

Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> Sun, 04 November 2018 09:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Fundamental ANAME problems
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On 04/11/2018 15:05, Paul Vixie wrote:

> as evidenced by RFC 8484, the web community seems to regret basing
> their work on the Internet System, and is now moving independently.
> this may mean that offering them something like "HTTP RR" which can't
> work better than SRV or URI already works, because they speciously
> refuse to embrace these working technologies, will buy you nothing.

Members of both communities had what I felt was a very productive side
meeting during the Montreal IETF, at which I also believe there was an
acceptance that both "sides" need to come together for a mutually
agreeable solution.

I don't think that either SRV or URI are usable for the primary use
case, i.e. allowing a domain owner to put a record at the apex of
their zone that points at the hostname of the web provider they want to
use.   I personally don't think that ANAME is a good solution either.

Hence my draft which I hope is a move towards that middle ground that we
can all work with.  I have already had positive feedback from some HTTP 
people, but antagonising them won't help.

Ray