Applications using base32 would still need to have an exact match to
return anything in DNS - so I do not understand the use of base32 and
another confusing empty non-terminal dot in DNS.
I do not understand the advantage of base32 in the QNAME.
As Viktor pointed out, the advantage is that the server can easily recover
the local-part from the query, which makes it possible for a specialized
server to do whatever it does and generate a response dynamically. You
can't do that with hashes.
I've written DNS servers that generate responses on the fly from a
database where it does application-specific lookups and transformations.
It's surprisingly easy. They don't do DNSSEC yet but I'm planning to take
a whack at that later this year.
Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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