Re: [Driu] [DNSOP] SRV and HTTP

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

I didn't find those, but I found many others.

I'll start collecting. How about Tuesday, say 6:45-7:45pm?



> On 11 Jul 2018, at 11:30 am, Mark Andrews <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On 11 Jul 2018, at 11:22 am, Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>> On 11 Jul 2018, at 3:55 am, Joe Abley <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 10, 2018, at 18:02, Adam Roach <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>>> In large part because DNS provides "a richer scheme that accommodates address families and multiple addresses with priorities".
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>>> *cups hand to ear*
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>>> Was that the sound of a distant desire to specify use of SRV for HTTP?
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>> I recently did some digging on this topic, and can try to characterise what the issues / objections are.
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> I think there are three main objections.
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> 1) Wildcards don’t work with prefixes.
> 2) Additional data isn’t always returned it may require multiple round trips.
> 3) Additional data processing doesn’t support negative responses.
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> All of these issues are trivially easy to fix.  It just require willingness to implement.
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> 1) is addressed by defining a new type(s) rather than using prefixes.
> 2) is addressed by getting recursive servers to fill in missing additional data before returning.  Named has code in review for this for SRV as proof of concept.
> 3) is addressed by adding some signalling between the client and recursive server to indicate if the additional section is complete or not.
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>> Would people be interested in a (hopefully brief) side meeting to discuss and maybe come to a shared understanding of the problem space?
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>> Cheers,
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>> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
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