Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2006-11-23 Thread Thomas Narten
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Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-23 Thread Peter Dambier
DNS is broken since people started disallowing AXFR transfers. DNS is no longer about publishing information about hostnames and numbers but about keeping this information a seecret. So not using DNS at all and distributing host files is much better than DNS and more reliable :) On the other ha

RE: SRV records considered dubious

2006-11-23 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Olaf M. Kolkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In general I think that we should make the 'being held > hostage' part into account when doing the tradeoff. Supose > 'Bob' has vested interest in deploying protocol FOO and there > is an installed base of application X that does not work we

Re: SRV records considered dubious

2006-11-23 Thread Olaf M. Kolkman
Hello Philip, You wrote: 1) DKIM does not have a requirement for specifying default key records. The need to solve the wildcarding problem does not therefore arise and there is no TECHNICAL reason to prefer RR over a prefixed record and significant DEPLOYMENT reasons to choose prefixed r