But we've gotten along with A and MX records at the same name for 30 years.
But A and MX records live within the same zone, whereas _openpgpkey.tld
currently is its own zone. It is a nice and clean separation.
It sounds like you are you saying that every new RR type should come with
a prefix, to provide this same nice clean separation. If not, what's
different about this RR type? It's not like we've never had zones with a
lot of leaf names before.
For example, when I filled this up with 3000 records for
_openpgpkey.fedoraproject.org it became obvious this zone couldn't live
in the same git repository as everything else due to its sheer size. The
same might no be true for some payment record or email alias record.
Maybe I'm spoiled, but a zone with 3000 records does not seem particularly
large to me. (One of my zones, admittedly an outlier, has 110,000, but it
poses no problems for the python and mysql scripts and NSD servers I use
to manage my DNS. I update it every day.)
Poor provisioning tools don't strike me as a very good reason to make long
term DNS design decisions. That's how we ended up with everything
overloaded onto TXT.
Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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