On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:18:40AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
remove the rrtypes from the registry
While it's good to see that the Internet Exemplary Taste-enForcers are
alive and well, I would have an extremely strong objection to that
approach. The DNS Extensions Working Group published an IANA
Considerations document that was explicitly designed to permit
registrations, and this is an example of that procedure working. If
people had objections to that permissiveness, they didn't express them
when the then-to-be-RFC6895 was last called. We have shipping
implementations of DNS software that are using those code points.
Removing the types from the registry does absolutely nothing for
interoperation, doesn't actually help any of the privacy concerns that
are being raised, doesn't solve anyone's problem, and sets up the
registry as a crypto-normative repository -- a state of affairs that
several people objected to when we tried to do this explicitly (I
still bear the scars from that lashing).
I am tired of the self-appointed Internet Cops attempting to regulate
the taste of people wanting to use the DNS. If people don't like the
allocation policy for DNS RRTYPEs, then they are free to spin up a new
DNSTASTE WG and get the policy changed. I will attend the BoF and
blow raspberries. But I look forward to the bright future in which
the DNS contains only TXT records, which we retrieve via port 80 or
(if lucky) port 443.
A
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