>AFAICT, no one is arguing that overloading TXT in the >way recommended by this draft is a good idea, rather the best arguments appear >to be that it is a pragmatic >"least bad" solution to the fact that (a) people often implement (poorly) the >very least they can get away >with and (b) it can take a very long time to fix mistakes on the Internet.
Neither of those are the reason the WG dropped type 99 records. The actual reason has been discussed at length, and was most recently described earlier today in this thread. Once again, I really don't understand what the point is here. R's, John
