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RE: Alternative to TXT or new RR was: Comments on draft-ietf-marid-core-01 xml use

2004-06-11 13:53:21

At 13:37 -0700 6/11/04, Michel Py wrote:

You lost me. What is the relation with ISC's dhcpd?
Besides, why does it matter?

The point was that MARID can't claim the TXT record as it's own.

At 23:15 -0700 6/10/04, Michel Py wrote:
II. At the same time, we obsolete the RFCs describing the
TXT RR and replace them with new text that says:

  i) The TXT RR is now reserved for SPFID and you can't put
     anything you want in it anymore; anything that would go
     into the TXT record needs to be cleared by MARID first.

ISC's DHCP implementation is one thing that uses the TXT RR (and as far as I know, not spec'd by a std). I know of other experimental uses of the TXT RR, for one, opportunistic encryption. There is an RFC in preparation to document that.

So, MARID can't claim the TXT for it's own - others already use it.

And the fact that one of these of the TXT RR is spec'd in any IETF document (so far as I have been able to tell), reliance on TXT in a proposed standard chancy - in my opinion.


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