On Sep 24, 2012, at 08:17, Richard Barnes wrote:

> 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..." ]
>> 
>>> -- 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?
> 

My thoughts exactly.


- m&m

Matt Miller - <[email protected]>
Cisco Systems, Inc.

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