> When a 2048 bit key is to be handled, with the 'g=' parameter 
> and a new hash callout, the space remaining is 93 bytes, 
> assuming a domain with 4 labels with a selector.  From these 
> 93 bytes, 5 labels, the local-part and hash function must be 
> defined where the average item size must be less than 14 
> bytes.  When a binary DKIM Key RR is used, the remaining 
> available space is 192 bytes, which then allows an average 
> item size to be greater than 27 bytes.  This provides twice 
> the available space, which is _not_ insignificant.  The cases 
> where the DNS payload overflows would be much fewer.

Irrelevant, there is no space for a DNSSEC signature in either case,
unless DNSSEC itself supported either ECC or some form of signature
compression a la Schnorr.

> There was not a suggestion to use a new binary record.  The 
> proposal was to employ an existing record in a binary fashion.

It may exist on paper, it is not supported in the running code and
getting support is a long time off.

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