RE: SRV records considered dubious

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Fri, 24 November 2006 08:27 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:26:50 +0100
From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>, "Olaf M. Kolkman" <olaf@NLnetLabs.nl>
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--On 23. november 2006 08:18 -0800 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
<pbaker@verisign.com> wrote:

> The draft is incomplete. It does not review all the technical options.
> These were raised on the DNSEXT list months ago.

Where's the draft?
>
> If you want there to be consensus on a draft then it has to put all the
> options fairly.
>
> If you want to refer to the draft as an authority you have to consider
> all the options.

Where's the draft? (of the options, not of -dns-choices)
>
>
>> I also do not agree that the document should not proceed
>> without addressing the pointer mechanism. The document is not
>> of the type that specifies new solutions, it documents
>> tradeoffs. If your pointer mechanism would be more than
>> 'mail-ware' (i.e. had sufficient review and consensus) then
>> it could have been part of the equation. I think that its to
>> late for that.
>
> How is it going to have review if the editors refuse to consider it?
>

Where's the draft?

Something that is not documented even as an internet-draft cannot be 
seriously considered in a review of current options line -choices.

                      Harald




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