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

Scott Kitterman ietf-dkim at kitterman.com
Sun Oct 15 13:24:25 PDT 2006


On Sunday 15 October 2006 16:13, Eliot Lear wrote:
> 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.
>
+1.

Scott K


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