Re: OPENPGPKEY RRTYPE review - Comments period ends Aug 6th

Hi Jay,

On 23 July 2014 at 19:09:06, Jay Daley ([email protected]) wrote:

> The text contains this specification element:
> 
> 3. The string "_openpgpkey" becomes the second left-most label in
> the prepared domain name.
> 
> without any explanation (that I can see) of a) why it is needed and b) why openpgpkey has 
> been chosen.

I have no skin in this game, but it seems to me that use of an underscore label is a reasonable way to avoid overloading a zone apex with yet another large RRType that would (if used) no doubt gleefully be abused by amplification monkeys.


Joe


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