Protocol Action: 'DNS SRV Resource Records for AFS' to Proposed Standard
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 25 February 2010 22:27 UTC
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The IESG has approved the following document: - 'DNS SRV Resource Records for AFS ' <draft-allbery-afs-srv-records-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-allbery-afs-srv-records-05.txt Technical Summary This document specifies how to use DNS (Domain Name Service) SRV RRs (Resource Records) to locate services for the AFS distributed file system and how the priority and weight values of the SRV RR should be interpreted in the server ranking system used by AFS. It deprecates use of the AFSDB RR to locate AFS cell database servers and provides guidance for backward compatibility. Working Group Summary This is not a WG document. This document represents the consensus of the AFS community to deprecate the use of DNS AFSDB resource records to locate AFS database services, as described in RFC1183, in favor of using SRV records. While the AFS protocols themselves are not the subject of any IETF work, this document is being advanced via the IETF because it updates previous IETF extensions to the DNS. Document Quality Major AFS client implementors have indicated plans to implement support for use of SRV records as described by this document. In addition, a variety of developers and operators have indicated a desire to publish and use SRV records as described here. There was substantial discussion surrounding the mapping of weight and priority information advertised via these records onto the server ranking system used by current AFS implementations, which resulted in the advice given in section 4.1. Personnel Jeffrey Hutzelman is the Document Shepherd. Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director.