Re: draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames-01.txt

[woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Fri, July 19, 1996 at 21:05 (PDT), Martin Hamilton wrote: ]
> Subject: draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames-01.txt
>
> Now, there seems to be some interest in making it a BCP, but is this
> an appropriate thing to be doing when SRV and LDAP-on-every-desktop
> are just around the corner?  (Caveat: we can reissue it when the
> current practice is different :-)  We're very interested in getting
> feedback on this aspect!

I would object to draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames only if it somehow impaired
the eventual success of DNS SRV RR's (or practical use of WKS RR's).

I'd really like to see DNS SRV (or even slightly enhanced WKS') become a
full RFC as soon as logically possible, and if it really does work out
in practice that it be put on track to become part of an STD series too.

In the mean time it seems most folks are indeed using dnsnames, and it
seems like it would be a good idea to make one interpretation BCP to
avoid any current confusion as best as possible.

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