On 6/9/2004 3:10 PM, Jim Lyon wrote:
No. As previously discussed at length, if you're in a corporate
environment behind a firewall created using Microsoft Internet Security
and Acceleration Server, you are completely incapable of querying for a
new record type, unless and until both your machine's OS and the
firewall's copy of ISA Server have been updated. Such updates don't
yet exist, and have probably already missed the boat for Longhorn.
Product-specific schedules and funding and politics and what-not are not
valid inputs to an architecture that will outlive those constraints. We
shouldn't be saddling the Internet community with bloatware and hackery
simply because some point-release product manager didn't predicte the
technology coming.
As a point of relevance, Microsoft has not yet committed to a timeframe
for developing and deploying support for i18n domain names either, but
that didn't stop the engineering from proceeding. In fact, that hole has
been partly filled by third-parties, and there's no reason to think the
same kind of solution would not emerge.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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