DNS record types; RE: [Asrg] Problems with RMX

"Bob Atkinson" <bobatk@exchange.microsoft.com> Tue, 06 May 2003 20:29 UTC

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Subject: DNS record types; RE: [Asrg] Problems with RMX
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> From: Ken Hirsch

> 1. It requires changes to DNS
> 
> The idea behind RMX can be implemented without changes to DNS,
however.
> For example, via MX records, as already mentioned, or via some
specially coded
> A record (see http://www.bondedsender.org/#dns-info).

I agree that using new DNS record types, which requires changes to DNS
clients and servers in order to be useful, would be a significant
barrier to adoption. 

My own preference is to store the new information in TXT record(s) in a
distinguished subdomain. For example, one might use the TXT records in
the '_rmx' subdomain of the domain in question: rather than querying for
the records of type RMX in domain domain.com, one queries for the
records of type TXT in the domain _rmx.domain.com.

A text encoding issue for the information remains, though XML is an
obvious candidate.

A final point is that we should remember that it's probable that as we
flush out an overall spam deterrence story we'll find that we want more
than just the specific RMX info that Hadmut has proposed to be published
in DNS. Anticipating that now is worth at least a few brain cycles.

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