Re: SRV records - when?

[Kevin Darcy <kcd@daimlerchrysler.com>]

Mark Andrews had an ID out there for this, but it appears to have expired.
Perhaps it could be resurrected?


- Kevin

Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:

>     On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 13:28, ed@alcpress.com wrote:
>     > I hope this is the right place to ask this question - if not please
>     > tell me where. It's been a number of years since the creation
>     > of the protocol-independent SRV resource record yet I know
>     > of no web browsers that implement it for HTTP. I've contacted
>     > web browser manufacturers and they show no interest in using
>     > it.
>
>     At least for Open Source clients, check out http://ruli.sourceforge.net.
>     RULI is a client library for dealing with SRV records.
>
>
> Nice work, but note the Applicability Statement in the SRV RFC:
>
>    In general, it is expected that SRV records will be used by clients
>    for applications where the relevant protocol specification indicates
>    that clients should use the SRV record. Such specification MUST
>    define the symbolic name to be used in the Service field of the SRV
>    record as described below. It also MUST include security
>    considerations. Service SRV records SHOULD NOT be used in the absence
>    of such specification.
>
> So to promote the use of SRV, one should also update the RFC's for
> the application protocols, defining the symbolic name etc.
>
>         jaap