On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 22:14, Greg Connor wrote:
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What I would really prefer to see is a few paragraphs that say:
1. What position you support
No parser is better. Virtually all DNS data is returned structured in a
binary format to keep information concise and small. This would require
either existing records other than TXT or a new record. Attempting to
add into a single TXT record seems an outcome of seeing text as
synonymous with a polymorphic web page; a dangerous design practice for
DNS. Excessive combining and dereferencing could be fatal for both DNS
and MAIL.
2. What other fallback or compromise positions you can live with, and
CSV-HNA-CSA~DNA : )
3. How strongly you feel about one or the other.
Neither are great. Keeping XML controlled is not allowed it would seem,
but even SPF should be limited with more restrictions. Can an assurance be
established? Will benefits outweigh risk? Would a hexidecimal encoding
of a structured array be more concise?
-Doug