On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
There was a clear agreement to a new RR type (which is
consistent with draft-iab-dns-choices-00, which basically
says that "Thou shalt not use TXT records").
Which is a draft, has no standing and merely states the authors predjudices
without honestly representing the contrary opinion.
Can I please use the above with your name in it? Something like this maybe:
"Which is a statement from Phillip Hallam-Baker and has no standing and
merely states the author's predjudices without honestly representing the
contrary opinion."
This was discussed and at the FTC meeting. The view there was that should be
no new RR and that any new RR will be ignored. The TXT record is final and
will not be revised.
Don't confuse people, it was not discussed at FTC. Existing proposals were
presented at FTC but proposals as part of them contain text that say
that new RR type will be used but right now until its been allocated
we're using TXT for purposes of TESTING and EXPERIMENTATION.
Note that FTC Summit seems to have ended not with opinion that we should
deploy SenderID immediatly but that we should do some more testing
and then discuss results again before deciding if the system works.
Very few were willing to base their decisions based on SenderID right now.
If you disagree with this decision then take it up with the UN.
We'll take it with IETF and FTC has smart technical people who agree more
with IETF then they do with somebody as monopoly-hungry as Microsoft.
Nevertheless, IETFers like Peter Koch were extremely vocal about it,
asking for no TXT records at all and just the new record, disclaiming
installed base as either inexistant or unimportant.
Well he is wrong.
No you are, no you are, no you are.... Children's playground it is!
And from technical perspective of IETF, Peter Koch is absolutly right.
These two questions did not seem to be a stopper for most
people. The WG should formally review the DNS part of the
draft now if the "SPF community" ask it to do so.
Please save yourselves the effort. The standards will be ratified in
another venue shortly.
And what venue what that be? The "Microsoft and Friends Standard Organization"?
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net