Hi Cyrus,
At 07:33 20-08-2009, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'Use of SRV records for locating email services '
<draft-daboo-srv-email-02.txt> as a Proposed Standard
In the Introduction section:
"A better approach would be to require
miniml information to be entered by a user which would result in
automatic configuration of appropriate services for that user."
There is a typo for "minimal".
In Section 4:
"If the SRV lookup is successful the host name and port for
the service can be determined and used to complete client
configuration."
What happens if there is more than one service record for a SRV
service type? You provided an alternative in the case of POP3 and
IMAP with the "it could prompt the user to make a choice, or pick one
based on local policy".
In Section 5:
"In the former case, the email
addresses must not conflict with other forms of permitted user
login name."
You could use "MUST NOT".
A discussion of the "domain name of the target host" (RFC 2782) may
be helpful in this section as the it affects the current practice of
using an alias as the host name for the service.
Quoting RFC 2782:
"The SRV RR allows administrators to use several servers for a single
domain, to move services from host to host with little fuss, and to
designate some hosts as primary servers for a service and others as
backups."
The mechanism in this proposal provides for automatic configuration
of appropriate services to help the user. However, service providers
are restricted in their ability to move services from host to host
with little fuss once the email client uses this one-off
configuration mechanism. The choice is between a simple automatic
configuration mechanism of email clients or a service discovery
protocol for email clients.
In Section 6:
"Alternatively, if transport layer security is being used,
clients MUST use the service domain used in the SRV record lookup as
the server name for certificate verification pruposes."
There is a typo for "purposes".
Regards,
-sm
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