[ietf-dkim] Today's jabber

[Eric Allman]

Tony, as it turns out I had already edited in some changes --- I'll 
check to make sure they are consistent with what you propose.

One change I made (tentatively) is to use the "options" part to 
indicate the record type --- so base defines "dns/txt" only, with a 
mention that we expect a "dns/dkk" type to appear later.

All: any thoughts on whether this is a good idea?

eric


--On May 18, 2006 12:31:43 PM -0400 Tony Hansen <tony at att.com> wrote:

> One of the topics from today's jabber session was how to handle DNS
> queries with the advent of a DNS RR record in the future. Do we
> keep the TXT references in the current document? Do we make
> references to the DNS RR record? Do we define in base how to
> cascade from RR to TXT? It all boils down to the question of "what
> does q=dns" mean.
>
> My suggestion in the jabber session was:
>
>    1)	making q=dns mean *only* a DNS TXT lookup,
>    2)	define that lookup within base
>    3)	when the DNS RR draft comes out, it would also define a new q=
> 	value, something like dnsrr, that says to do a lookup using new
> 	DNS RR record.
>    4)	given that q= can take a list, the question of handling both
> RR 	and TXT records could be denoted by using q=dnsrr,dns, rather
> 	than saying that q=dnsrr should search both.