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Re: draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header and draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2538bis-09.txt

2005-10-31 02:36:43

Anand Kumria <wildfire(_at_)progsoc(_dot_)uts(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au> writes:

Hi there,

The openpgp-mailnews-header defines a mechanism for senders to notify
recipients of both their preferences (w.r.t OpenPGP keys) and the keying
material to be used (e.g. keyid).

dnsext-rfc2538bis defines a mechanism where keying material is stored
within the DNS (e.g. OpenPGP).  The overlap here is that users may wish
to store their key in the DNS (via dnsext-rfc2538bis) and refer to them
using openpgp-mailnews-header.

Since openpgp-mailnews-header specifies using a URI to refer to the
location, it would seem -- to me at least -- that there needs to be some
kind of URI specification to allow you to refer to DNS resource records.

Is there one already, or work underway to produce a DNS URI spec.?

Hi Anand!  Thanks for your interest.  The document you refer to is in
the RFC Editor's queue; see also <http://josefsson.org/dns-url/>.

Cheers,
Simon

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