Jim Fenton wrote: > (2) Although some SMTP servers will continue to be found through A > records for legacy reasons, there is no longer a good reason for any new > server not to have a published MX record.
Then they won't. And we don't need to alter algorithms that have been in operation for more than 20 years and working well. Really, it does not make sense to impose changes based on hopeful thinking rather than compelling need. SMTP clients (senders) will, > of course, need to continue to look up A records, but since there is > currently no significant use of AAAA records for email routing, we > should not perpetuate this legacy in IPv6 as it is in IPv4. Please document the problems caused by this legacy, since serious problems are what ought to dictate changing an installed service. The added 'complexity' has worked well enough for 20 years, so it's a bit difficult to assert it as significant now. Make AAAA records get the same handling as A and you've made the smallest possible change to Internet email's transport service. Start messing around with the role of the address record, and you are altering the service at a more basic architectural level. Absent compelling need, that's usually a poor idea. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
