On Nov 20, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Shane Kerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Viktor,
> 
> On 20/11/2019 10.04, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>> My proposal:
>> 1. SVCB  ->  SRVLOC
>>    Service location, less cryptic than SVCB, and manifestly a
>>    generalization of SRV.
>> 2. HTTPSSVC  ->  HTTPLOC
>>    HTTP location, manifestly a variant of the generic service location,
>>    with HTTP in the name.
>> Definitely agree on the need for a single lexeme, these names end up as
>> enum names in various programming languages.
> 
> Unfortunately these are similar to the fun but rarely-used LOC record:
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1876
> 
> And also similar to the even less-frequently used NIMLOC record (which seems 
> to be from a routing architecture that hasn't been worked on in 20 years):
> 
> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/nimrod/dns.txt
> 
> Not necessarily a complete veto, but definitely a mark against 
> SRVLOC/HTTPLOC, I think.

Even though this is bikeshedding, I fully disagree with the concern that Shane 
brings up here. RRtypes are exact match, and we haven't seen any "sounds like" 
problems in the past.

I like "fooLOC" as a naming scheme here.

--Paul Hoffman

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