Mark,
On Jul 6, 2017, 11:56 PM -0700, Mark Andrews <marka(_at_)isc(_dot_)org>, wrote:
Or you could stop trying to reinforce the myth that new RR types
are hard to deploy. They really aren't.
Please stop trying to minimize the amount of work here. They really are. Not
for you, but for the folks who make domain names available for use by
non-technical types.
Then change domain hosting providers and tell them why or run you
own master server or use a service which allows for dynamic updates
which shouldn't care about the record types. There are plenty of
DNS providers that will slave content.
The number of folks who even understand what you've written above, much less
can actually do it, is insignificant in the context of seeing significant
adoption of new RRs.
As a DNS server vendor
You need to look at the wider world.
The DNS server side of deploying a new RR is the easiest part and while
necessary, it's no where even close to sufficient to getting a new RR deployed.
It's like trying to move the automobile industry to hydrogen fuel: building a
car that runs on hydrogen is easy, relatively speaking. However to actually do
anything useful with that car, you need need to modify the fuel delivery
infrastructure, which is vastly harder, involves a vastly larger set of
players, very few of which have any sort of financial incentive to make the
change. Standard chicken-or-egg problem.
ICANN funded John Levine to
develop https://metacpan.org/release/JRLEVINE/Net-DNS-Extlang-0.1 to try to
make it easier to break the chicken-or-egg problem by hopefully giving the
folks who provide the UIs by which domain names are managed by non-geeks better
tools. However, that's just the first step -- the domain name managers still
need to be encouraged to use them. Pretending this is an easy problem isn't
helping.
Regards,
-drc