Re: [Doh] Use cases and URLs

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Wed, 07 March 2018 04:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] Use cases and URLs
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On 3/6/18 9:49 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> The current draft says that there is no standard, and every origin will have its own URL for the API. This makes it much harder for a user to add new configured DNS API servers


Can you elaborate on this a bit? I fully expect that the typical 
user-self-provisioning case will involve copy/pasting server 
information, in which case the difference between a server and a URL is 
pretty minimal. Do you expect users to type server names in rather than 
copying them?

/a