Re: The state of DNS support, was Deprecating SPF

"John Levine" <[email protected]> 26 Oct 2013 02:56:14 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dnsext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> At the risk of ridicule, and in the interest of potentially useful results:
>>
>> Why not deprecate TXT, or at least abandon the current TXT and introduce
>> a new TXT code point? And, as each iteration gets trashed, move on to the
>> next one?
>>
>
>I suggested allocating a dozen new TXT records for people to play with.
>Crickets...

I believe that solves a problem that doesn't actually exist.

The real problem is that most provisioning software makes it too
painful to support new RR types.  A handful of TXT-like RRs that
people will use insonsistently seems unlikely to fix that.

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