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Re: [Doh] [Ext] Use of TXT records

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Sat, 16 March 2019 15:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] [Ext] Use of TXT records
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On Mar 16, 2019, at 12:57 AM, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> If a slower consensus means a more easily adopted solution, take the slower consensus.  I realize this is a controversial thing to say in a room full of DNS experts, but rolling out new RRTYPEs is a royal pain.  TXT is far easier to deal with.
> 

I thoroughly disagree in this case. The only application using this will be one that can create binary messages, so the RRtype number is pretty trivial. 

The reason I chose TXT is that there is zero chance that there is any other reason for a TXT record for this special-use domain name, and people know TXT. If the WG wants a new RRtype for this, that's easy for me to change in the draft.

--Paul Hoffman

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