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consensus call of RR prefix

2004-09-03 14:32:22

From the discussion on prefixes for the DNS record, there seems to have been no discernible outcome regarding the use of prefixes for the purposes of avoiding collisions with other DNS records (thus avoiding fallback to DNS over TCP).

Naturally, this issue wraps itself into both the versioning/scoping issue and the wildcard issue. Based on the comments received so far, it is the opinion of the co-chairs that there is no consensus on how to handle wildcards and that most participants seem to agree that wildcards present a problem no matter the solution. Based on the comments received so far, it is the opinion of the co-chairs that there is consensus on placing the "scope" in the RDATA of the record and no consensus on the scope being in the prefix.

Therefore, that leaves one under-discussed question: should a prefix be used to avoid collision with other records as one measure of preventing the requirement of DNS over TCP?

Incidentally, the co-chairs note that many examples of the prefix have used "-marid". We would note that "MARID" is the name of this working group and likely not meaningful beyond the context of discussions and process of this working group. Therefore we recommend a more meaningful label such as "_rmx": the deduction of its meaning is easier and it references the genesis of the MARID idea.

-your co-chairs


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