[ietf-dkim] Re: New Issue: Use of XPTR records in SSP

[Frank Ellermann]

Jim Fenton wrote:

> Phill should probably be the one to comment directly on the reason for
> the new XPTR record type, but I'm under the impression that he's trying
> to avoid conflict with existing uses of PTR.  I, at least, had not
> considered use of NAPTR here; can you outline how it might work?

Sorry, no, that's why I said that I'm lost with DNS issues, and haven't
the time to learn more about it.  The U/S-NAPTR records allow to locate
"services" somehow starting from a given name, and at the end you could
get an address record plus a protocol to use.  For our purposes here we
would need a TXT record with the signing policy at the end.  Or maybe
the address of a Web server hosting the signing policy, I can't tell...

   [Phil's proposal]
>>> that's a much larger question than this WG and undoubtedly a much
>>> more time-consuming one as well.

>> <sigh />  Without knowing it you might have repeated a MARID argument.

> I suspect I may have.  Are you suggesting we take this on?

Really, I can't judge it.  Whatever the folks here decide, please check
it with some "namedroppers" before we waste months revisiting ratholes.

Frank