Re: [dnsext] New Version Notification - draft-gudmundsson-dnsext-srv-clarify-01.txt (fwd)

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> Thu, 01 July 2010 07:29 UTC

To: Alfred =?hp-roman8?B?SM5uZXM=?= <ah@TR-Sys.de>
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Subject: Re: [dnsext] New Version Notification - draft-gudmundsson-dnsext-srv-clarify-01.txt (fwd)
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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:22:46 +0000
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* Alfred:

> My apologies for cross-posting,
> but this is inherently a cross-wg and cross-area topic:
>
> The revised draft contains clarifications for DNS service discovery
> using SRV RRs and suggests methods to deal with the restrictions
> imposed by draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports.  It is intended that both
> drafts will eventually be published in a coordinated manner.
>
>
> Abstract
>
>    The DNS SRV record has been specified in RFC 2052 and RFC 2782 for
>    use in dynamic service discovery for a domain.  These two RFCs did
>    not clearly specify an IANA registry for the names of the services
>    and their underlying protocols.  This document clarifies RFC 2782
>    regarding the formation and use of the Service Prefix in the owner
>    name of SRV records, based on the unified IANA registry for "Service
>    Names and Transport Protocol Port Numbers".

Wouldn't it be better to put that effort into a SRV successor which
focuses on cryptographic binding and the introduction of (generic,
cross-application) transports above TCP/UDP?

Right now, we've got many protocols which can run over HTTP(S) and
home-grown pseudo-transport layers, and with SRV records, it is not
possible to figure out if HTTP is to be used or not.

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Re: [dnsext] New Version Notification - draft-gud… Florian Weimer
[dnsext] New Version Notification - draft-gudmund… Alfred Hönes