At 3:20 PM -0400 6/23/10, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
3) .well-known is useful in the absence of any DNS records. i.e. if no SRV/URI
were available, a client can still try auto-discovery by attempting an HTTP
connection to the host (derived from user input) and the .well-known path.
This sounds weird to me. The tradeoff is using two different protocols (DNS and
HTTP) versus one (DNS). For schemes that are not being run over HTTP, that
means that the client needs to add an HTTP client stack just to find the right
server. Is this really a good idea?
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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