Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
URI doesn't have quite the flexibility of SRV + TXT though.
The problem is that we don't need flexibility at all and the flexibility that URI may not have authority section is bad enough, which is why generic URI must be excluded from consideration for port independence. > One issue that might be relevant here is the transition from using > the same protocol for client/resolver and for resolver/authoritative > to a mode where the client talks to the resolver via an > authenticated, encrypted protocol. Our tradition for web services is to have http: and https: separately. Masataka Ohta