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Re: consensus call of RR prefix

2004-09-03 16:14:11

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Andrew Newton wrote:

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?

The include workaround proposed to the list seem to work for the major
cases I outlined, and leaving the TXT records in the domain.tld dataspace,
while ugly, seems like a good bit of parallelism for the SPF records that
will be published in the same place.

I would suggest that the document be ammended to remind people that *all*
TXT records published for domain.tld should fit in 480 bytes (mentioning
spfv1 and spfv2), and perhaps also suggest the include workaround for
sites that will need to publish really large records.

-Rand