Rémi Després wrote: > IMO, service names and SRV records SHOULD be supported asap in all > resolvers (in addition to host names and A/AAAA records that they > support today). > Any view on this? a) SRV records only apply to applications that use them. to use them otherwise would break compatibility. b) SRV records also increase reliance on DNS which (among other things) is a barrier to deployment of new applications. use of SRV would therefore encourage overloading of existing protocols and service names to run new applications (another version of the everything-over-http syndrome). c) use of SRV would encourage even more meddling with protocols by NATs d) it's not immediately clear to me that it would be feasible for SRV to be used by applications that need to do referrals. they'd need some way to generate new, unique "service names" and there would need to be a way to generate and distribute new DNS dynamic update credentials to those applications or even application instances. and that's just the problems I can think of off the top of my head. Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf