-------- >One question is that surely somebody else must have thought of this >for conveying other sorts of non-DNS community metadata? What >lessons might be learned?
TXT records were popular for Rick-rolling at some point in the past. The problem with doing a "service" like this is who you trust. The reason I have been considering it at all, is to support my Ntimed programs. If you trust my source code you probably also trust my DNS-skillz. But would I point my source-code at some random persons service, even if it were Tony or Tom ? And would my users share my belief that you can trust these fine gentlemen ? I doubt it. The ideal situation would be that IERS and the major timelabs agreed to do this, so that a DNS lookup of leapsecond.iers.org, leapsecond.nist.gov, leapsecond.ptb.de and so an all did the same thing, and people could pick who they trust. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
