Re: [dnsoverhttp] [Ext] RFC 4501 vs. draft-hoffman-dns-over-http

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Mon, 03 April 2017 21:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsoverhttp] [Ext] RFC 4501 vs. draft-hoffman-dns-over-http
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On Apr 3, 2017, at 1:55 PM, Ben Schwartz <bemasc@google.com> wrote:
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> I noticed that draft-hoffman-dns-over-http doesn't mention RFC 4501.  Does anyone (especially the authors) know why that is?
> 
> It occurs to me that using RFC 4501 (dns:...) URIs could have advantages for caching, whereas using an https:// URI makes deployment easier on existing servers.  I wonder if there are other considerations?

There has been no noticeable implementation of RFC 4501, as far as I know. Thus, defining DNS-over-HTTP directly seemed better.

--Paul Hoffman