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Re: Last Call: draft-daboo-srv-caldav (Use of SRV records for locating CalDAV and CardDAV services) to Proposed Standard

2010-06-24 10:59:48
At 7:47 AM +0200 6/24/10, Patrik Fältström wrote:
Sure, but, support for unknown RR Types is said to be needed since long time 
back. And what API do not handle the ability to request an RR with a specific 
RRTYPE?

int res_query(const char *dname, int class, int type, u_char *answer, int 
anslen);

Anyway...this discussion has been held in the IETF I do not know how many 
times. Instead of writing another 10 lines of code (or whatever is needed) 
people fall back to existing RR Types, and not only that, define future 
protocols because of lack of #define for new RRTYPES.

I know people have different views here, and I have one specific view ;-)

As someone who normally has that "different view", I support a new RRTYPE in 
this case because the option of reusing SRV is not sufficient: it requires 
DNS-SRV-followed-by-HTTP. I think a new RRTYPE that keeps the DNS lookup 
entirely in the DNS protocol far outweighs reusing SRV but requiring HTTP on 
both sides.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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