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

In message <[email protected]>, Joe Abley writes:
> 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 lab
> el is a reasonable way to avoid overloading a zone apex with yet another larg
> e RRType that would (if used) no doubt gleefully be abused by amplification m
> onkeys.

It also creates a distinct namespace for the mapped email addresses
for this purpose.  This is one thing the existing mbox encoding got
wrong.

> Joe
> 
> 
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