On Monday, September 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Miek Gieben wrote:
> [ Quoting <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> in "Re: [dane] Call for 
> Adoption: draft..." ]
> > In general, I support the idea of what this document is trying to do. But
> > there are a couple of problems with their concrete approach. Without delving
> > into a full review…
> >  
> > -- The algorithm for domain names is really insufficient. For example, I 
> > have
> > the email address [email protected] 
> > (mailto:[email protected]) -- how do the dots get
> > encoded? I realize that the DNS wire format allows labels to have dots, but
> > good luck making most libraries make that query.
> >  
>  
>  
> Huh? Reading from section 3: 
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoffman-dane-smime-04)
>  

Thanks.  That's what I get for replying to email under the influence of jet 
lag.   
  
>  
> > -- I don't really see why we need a new RR type here, beyond the cognitive
> > dissonance caused by the three letters "TLS".
> >  
>  
>  
> new RRs are cheap. Why not get one?
Why *would* you?  The cert/chain matching semantics are the same, the only 
difference is how you get the cert/chain (S/MIME vs. TLS).   

New RRs are not *that* cheap.  Yes, servers and resolvers usually do let you 
provision arbitrary RR types by number, but that's not nearly as nice as having 
a real syntax, which takes time to develop and deploy.  If you've got TLSA and 
you just need people to look for it in a different place, why bother going to 
the effort of making everyone support a new type?

--Richard


  
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