If it is really only a variant, you should just DNAME it to the other domain ?
Sent from mobile device On Feb 27, 2019, at 11:37, Hollenbeck, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: DNSOP <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Stephen Farrell >> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 11:15 AM >> To: Paul Wouters <[email protected]>; Brotman, Alexander >> <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DNSOP] [dbound] Related Domains By DNS (RDBD) >> Draft >> >> >> Hiya, >> >>> On 27/02/2019 15:54, Paul Wouters wrote: >>> How is this data being consumed by the enduser ? >> >> Very good question. Sorry for what's likely a longer answer than you want:-) >> >> Alex and I chatted about that and I think ended up >> figuring: a) there are many potential semantics that could be associated with >> such a linkage, b) we don't yet know what'd be useful, but c) no, we are defo >> not trying for an EV-like thing and lastly d) we really want to keep this as >> simple as possible - given there's a lot of feature-creep potential here, and >> that'd likely be fatal. >> >> My own use-case for this relates more to surveys, where I'd like to get a >> hint >> that two names are related so I could take that into account. Alex's is more >> business like (as you'd expect:-) he'd like to be able to feed this kind of >> linkage information into mail processing, e.g. perhaps to treat some mails as >> less-likely spam if he sees a link, compared to if he doesn't (with all the >> other >> mail processing foo that'd clearly be required to not do that kind of thing >> stupidly of course). We guess that there'd be other uses too but finding out >> if >> this is seen as useful enough that people would publish RR's is part of why >> we shot out the draft now. >> >> We also considered whether or not to e.g. try to add some kind of flag to >> indicate semantics but reckoned we don't know enough to do that for now. > > This might also be useful for IDN variants where some downstream consumer > would like to know that two different IDNs are actually "the same". The > relationship between variants isn't a parent-child relationship (they're more > commonly siblings), but perhaps the concept could be extended to identify > sibling relationships, too. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
