> On Aug 18, 2026, at 2:39 PM, Dan Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Aug 18, 2026, at 9:52 AM, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026, John Levine wrote: >> >>> According to Dan Mahoney <[email protected]>: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am Requesting the following addition to the "Underscored and Globally >>>> Scoped DNS Node Names" registry, per RFC 8552 Section 3: >>>> >>>> RR Type _NODE NAME Reference >>>> TXT _tls RFC 8460 >>>> >>>> RFC 8460 (SMTP TLS Reporting) defines a TXT record at >>>> _smtp._tls.<domain>. Under RFC 8552, the name that actually needs >>>> registering is the one closest to the root - here, "_tls" - with >>>> "_smtp" as a subordinate name under it. Subordinate names aren't >>>> separately registered; they're the responsibility of whoever holds >>>> the parent entry, so this is not a request to also add "_smtp". >>>> >>>> This looks like a oversight from prior work. >> >> It seems to be yes. >> >>> It's more of a race condition. RFCs 8460 and 8553 were written at about >>> the same time and we didn't think to do another pass over newly published >>> RFCs after the last draft of 8553. >>> >>>> I believe this falls under the "Expert Review" process in RFC 8552 >>> >>> Agreed. IANA has a form for you to submit here: >>> >>> https://www.iana.org/form/protocol-assignment >> >> This is the process, yes. > > I'll go fill that out just for the sake of completeness. (Done)
Just to close the loop here, this has now been added to the registry. Thanks for the comments. -Dan _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
