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

Otmar Lendl wrote:
> 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

Was just pointing out your query protocol already exists, not suggesting
we use it ;). I completely agree that re-evaluation is needed here as we
use the DNS in unique ways.

-pee