In your little dialog, the boss was entirely reasonable -- the practical
benefit from implementing SPF records would be zip.
Or, put more simply, your conclusion seems to be that we can never add
new RRs. Given that adding new RRs is crucial to the growth of the
Internet, I reject that conclusion completely.
No, I'm saying that it would be a lot more productive to help people
improve their provisioning systems, rather than say how stupid they are
for not doing what we want. Even now, there are precious few provisioning
systems that support AAAA records, and even fewer that support DNSSEC. I
hacked support for AAAA into mine, but as far as I can tell, none of my
users other than me is using them. I added SPF records, but then took
them out when my DNS mirror complained that he was getting strange error
messages.
By the way, what's your opinion of draft-levine-dnsextlang-02?
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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