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suggested new RRtype experiment

2004-05-20 01:03:05

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:15:21PM -0700, Greg Connor wrote:
| 
| My feeling is that reusing TXT (or SRV or A records for that matter) is a 
| bit of a hack.  It is acceptable, but not optimal.  Shifting the label to 
| add _spf or _ep or whatever is even more of a hack.  BOTH of these are 
| considerably-less-than-perfect replacements for getting our own record 
| type, which is IMO the RIGHT answer.
| 

Could someone with Copious Free Time (probably meaning someone not
attending the meeting :) please do an experiment and try publishing a
MARID type record using existing but relatively up to date DNS server
software?  And post a commentary on the process and what you learned
along the way.  For purposes of this experiment, allocate yourself a
new RRtype preferably in the experimental space.  Getting to the point
where a dig returns an SPF record but with rrtype=MARID would be a
win.