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Re: Re: new RRtype may not be that hard

2004-05-20 12:56:16
Meng Weng Wong <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com>:
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:53:04PM -0400, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
| Let's pretend the IETF in its wisdom decides that The New SPF
| absolutely may not reuse TXT.
| 
| There is a good argument for using a new RRtype: it is good
| engineering and architecture.

also, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-dns-choices-00.txt

I strongly concur with this draft.

I have thought the use of TXT was the biggest ugliness in SPF since day one.

Yes, let's claim a new RR.  Let's make that change now, before the overhead
gets higher.  Sine it looks like SPF is about to be redesigned anyway...
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>