> On 10 Oct 2022, at 20:17, Brian Dickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> One question about the third iteration itself that I have: Is the mandatory 
> element "3" (the protocol field in DNSKEY record) related to this being the 
> third iteration?

It is not.

RC 3445 explains it in detail, and closes the KEY (and DNSKEY) protocol 
registry. These values indicate that a KEY could be used for various 
applications. IIRC 1 was for email, 2 for IPSEC, 3 for DNSSEC, 4 for TLS.

The issue was (again iirc) that multiple application keys and DNSSEC keys at an 
APEX would increase the response size to a level that would require fallback to 
TCP. Since application keys could simply have their own RRTYPE, this sub typing 
was unnecessary.

Roy

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