On 11/09/2020 15:37, Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings. Puneet and I have an new draft, <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pp-dnsop-authinfo>, that we would like DNSOP to consider. From the abstract: This document defines a new DNS RRtype, AUTHINFO, that is used by
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We would like DNSOP to adopt this, and of course we are open to suggestions on how to improve the protocol.
I know it is unrelated, but EPP uses authInfo term extensively (for authentication purposes and in practice basically as synonym of "password"), so I really recommend using another name for this record type, because otherwise I am pretty sure somewhere somehow someone will confuse both things.
Plus, why couldn't this be extended in the future to recursive nameservers as well? In which case, the name should be resolver genre agnostic.
Maybe something like "CAPABILITIES" or "ABILITIES"? (or shorter version) -- Patrick Mevzek _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
