Hi Cyrus,
--On February 16, 2012 10:25:22 AM +0000 Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote:Which is a vote from me for "yes, SRV option makes sense".Oh, totally agree. Discovery is awesome, user-configuration is insane. I don't see there's any valid argument the other way.Practical experience with SRV has shown that, whilst it is fine for large service providers to do that sort of thing (c.f., Google, iCloud etc), the practicalities of actually being able to setup SRV records and have proper SSL cert validation is heard, particularly for "hosted domain" type applications.
This is veering off-topic, but it's something I've spent quite a bit of time on: I suppose that you could call one of Germany's largest universities a large service provider. Setting up SRV records and certificates is no big deal for us. I have set up RC 6186 SRV records for the uni-koeln.de domain, but there are two problems:
• I'm not aware of a single client that actually uses those • it's not enough.What we need is a mechanism to map from an email address to a combo of server addresses and logins. Both the Microsoft approach and the Thunderbird model allow for that. With RFC 6186 the user still needs to know what his or her login is ... in our case it's often not the email address.
-- Sebastian Hagedorn - RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZK) Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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