Absolutely agree with both Robert and Vadim that DNS need to be revised in a big way. I especially would like to see the MX record concept applied to information services (IX maybe), i.e. [...]
That's not a big revision. "Big" revisions usually entail wire protocol changes. What you want is called a "SRV" record and it was submitted to the RFC Editor for "extended last call" (befitting its experimental status) about a week ago. An earlier version can be had from any Internet Drafts repository as draft-gulbrandsen-dns-rr-srvcs-01.txt.
Has this simple concept been proposed in an IETF draft unknown to us ugly ducklings :-)
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Tim
Tim, next time I'd like you to do three things differently: (1) do your homework before posting widely (2) post to big-internet or nanog but not both (3) only include one copy of your .signature Paul