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Re: [port-srv-reg] we need to make progress

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com> Wed, 08 September 2010 00:22 UTC

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From: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:22:26 -0700
To: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
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Subject: Re: [port-srv-reg] we need to make progress
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On 3 Sep, 2010, at 10:07, Joe Touch wrote:

>>       <t>The details of how applications make use of DNS SRV  
>> should be
>>       specified in the documentation set of the application/ 
>> service.  In
>>       the absence of such specification, prospective clients of a  
>> given
>>       service should not assume the existence of SRV RRs for this
>>       service or, if they have indications that this will be the case
>>       (e.g., by configuration), must assume the unextended naming  
>> scheme
>>       from <xref target="RFC2782"/> for service discovery with DNS  
>> SRV,
>>       i.e., the Service Label is constructed from the Service Name
>>       registered in <xref target="PORTREG"/> by prepending a single
>>       underscore character ("_").</t>
>>
>> This is nonsense and must go. What is "the unextended naming  
>> scheme"? There's no mention in RFC 2782 of "extended" or  
>> "unextended" naming.
>
> This refers to the appendix of the gudmundsson-dnsext-srv-clarify,  
> and I
> would agree it should be removed too.
>
> Joe

Okay, this is deleted too.

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
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