On Monday, May 31, we will have another XMPP chat session.
Jabber room: marid(_at_)ietf(_dot_)xmpp(_dot_)org
Date: Every other Monday starting April 19
Time: 20:00 UTC
Your Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?
day=31&month=5&year=2004&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
We are aware that this is a U.S. holiday.
We would like to discuss the topic of wildcards.
On the topic of wildcards, here is food for thought:
1) Should we make a distinction between functionality delivered via DNS
wildcard vs. tree-walking by the application (either using SOA data or
label iteration)? Are the advantages and disadvantages of a DNS
wildcard vs. tree-walking by the application?
2) Given that DNS wildcards only match on non-existent names (not name
and type), what is the functional difference between covering a
non-existent domain name with a MARID record vs. no record at all?
3) Is there a need to have a MARID record for non-existent domain names
when there is a need for an MX record for non-existent domain names?
What are the use cases for an MX record for non-existent domain names?
4) If a wildcard-like function is desired, is iteratively dropping the
left-most label by the application an acceptable solution? What are
the advantages/disadvantages to this compared with using the SOA data?
-andy