Re: New I-D:draft-kaplan-enum-source-uri-00.txt

Otmar Lendl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.enum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007/12/12 16:12, Paul Erkkila <[email protected]> wrote:
> Otmar Lendl wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Yes, the incremental change ist not that big. The question remains: 
> > 
> > Have we now reached the point where we should stop fiddling with the
> > DNS protocol and should instead look for a directory lookup protocol
> > which was designed from the beginning to support authenticated and
> > complex queries returning structured data?
> 
> LDAP?

Hold your horses.

All I want here is to step back and re-evaluate whether DNS is still
the appropriate baseline protocol on top of which you want to build
your application. We're piling extension upon extension here. At some
point, the foundations will crack and we can't patch over the
limitations (or better, assumptions) of the initial design any longer.

I'm not claiming (nor ruling out) we're there yet. I did not suggest alternative protocol.

We just need to think this through. 

/ol
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