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Re: [Http-srv] Alternative to SRV?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 21 August 2018 19:40 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [Http-srv] Alternative to SRV?
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Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> wrote:
>
> As mentioned at the side-meeting in Montreal, I strongly believe that the way
> forward should be a new RR that is specific for the use of HTTP(s) (c.f. MX
> for SMTP) and that would be automatically looked up by recursive resolvers and
> returned in answers [*]

What will the backwards compatibility story be?

In the early days, what advantages will there be for DNS operators that
will make them want to use this record?

Tony.
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