John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > > What's peculiar is the names. The previous proposal was to look up a > TLSA at _smtp.outbound.example.com, then somone noted that _smtp is > for servers, so they want to look up the newly invented name > _smtp-client.outbound.example.com. If you have a client for some > other service, you make up a name. (Read the draft if this seems like > an implausible summary.)
This naming scheme is a bad idea because it looks very similar to XMPP SRV records but has confusingly different semantics. _xmpp-client refers to an XMPP server endpoint for use by clients. _xmpp-server refers to an XMPP server endpoint for use by other servers. _submission refers to SMTP-like server endpoints for use by clients. _smtp-client is proposed to refer to SMTP client initiators. More generally this promises to clutter up the service identifier namespace with identifiers for clients, which are not services. I like the idea of taking the server's service labels and prefixing them with _client. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Thames, Dover, Wight: Northwest backing southwest 5 to 7, perhaps gale 8 later. Moderate or rough. Showers, becoming thundery later. Good, occasionally poor later. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
