On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Mark Andrews wrote:
Agreed. Additionally it suddenly went from something being done along with a experiment to being “a experiment on can you transition to a new type”. The transition to type99 was well underway. ...
No, really, we had numbers. Approximately nobody was using it, and of the few that were, they were querying just one or just the other and getting wrong results thereby. In general I completely agree that new applications should have new rrtypes. That's why I wrote my extension language, to help add new types to the provisioning crudware that is the actual blocking factor on new types. (The actual servers are all updated pretty quickly.) But trying to retrofit a new type to an application that was already (albeit unwisely) using TXT was a losing battle. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly