On Apr 1, 2015, at 9:23 AM, John R Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
This sounds like a new protocol that changes the nature of the DNS. That's fine, but it certainly does not belong in DANE, and probably not in DNSOP. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
