Re: static versus dynamic nature of DNS: rate limiting

On 2004-02-22, at 20.33, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:

> As for DNS vs. HTTP for authorization, the DNS groups will be more
> qualified to answer the question. We have to prove why identity and 
> authorization make a difference, before getting into implementation 
> details.

People which think HTTP is a good solution should first understand the 
HTTP spec (RFC 2616 and RFC 2817) and then read RFC 3205. Especially as 
the email architecture today doesn't use the HTTP protocol. Do people 
really think it is a good idea to be dependent on one more protocol, 
when we already need SMTP and DNS?

Yes Hadmut, I understand people complained at your early proposals 
which were DNS based "because it is so hard to implement a new DNS RR". 
I would urge you and others to please ignore such comments until we 
have talked with DNS people in the IETF. I, which claim I know more 
about DNS than many other protocols, do not agree with most of those 
arguments.

    paf