On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 06:00:34AM -0700, Bill Manning wrote:
> Then the Internet is doomed. Either evolution or revolution.
> Either the right way or an incremental hack, a goiter, that
> we can never get rid of.
I don't think kre is opposing evolution here; simply saying that we
should assist evolution by doing it now while it's easier.
>% eg: now the DNS has SRV records, they do so everything that MX can do,
>% and more. In a way they're the analog of A6 and AAAA (MX is a subset of
>% SRV). There would be benefits to converting SMTP to use SRV instead of
>% MX. Can you imagine anyone seriously suggesting that that happen however?
>% Can you really imagine that there'd ever be a day when we could deprecate
>% the MX record?
>
> Yes I can see it. We've done it before. VJC is yet another
> example.
I can see that it is possible to convert SMTP to use SRV records, but
the required transition time would be tremendous. The same applies to
a transition from AAAA to A6 years down the track.
> Heck, we might even replace SMTP.
Isn't that revolutionary rather than evolutionary? :-)
> Yet another hack, like mobilip & IDN.
Why have a hack, when we can do it right the first time? You seem to
be implying...
> You seem unwilling to do the right thing in favor of what
> looks like the expediant thing. Or am I reading too much
> into your statements?
...that implementing A6 is the wrong thing to do. Wrong for what solid
reasons? (Leaving transition "woes" out of the debate for a moment.)
Wrong because AAAA has an advantage over A6? If so, what advantage?
If it is not wrong, then why move it off the standards track?
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nathanj
