[ietf-dkim] New Issue: New resource record type

[Eliot Lear]

Scott Kitterman wrote:
> This draft mentions the posibility of requiring a new resource record type.  
> It isn't clear from the draft if the mention is in reference to the idea of 
> using a new RR type in parallel with TXT for some period or if the idea is 
> possibly deployment exclusively in the new RR type.
>
> If it's the latter, I think that this would be an extraordinarily bad idea.  
> In my opinion, if this protocol is going to require a new RR type to go 
> forward, it will never get deployed.  
>
> Recommend a new requirement that the protocol MUST NOT depend solely on a new 
> DNS RR type just so there won't be any confusion on this.
>   

I would suggest that whatever approach SSP uses be consistent with what
has been done with the base protocol.

Eliot