Re: consensus call of RR prefix

[Ryan Ordway <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:56, Ryan Ordway wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 14:32, Andrew Newton wrote:
> 
> > Therefore, that leaves one under-discussed question: should a prefix be 
> > used to avoid collision with other records as one measure of preventing 
> > the requirement of DNS over TCP?
> 
> 	No. 
> 
> 1) Inconsistent with SPF RR that doesn't use a prefix
> 2) Causes deployment headaches for those who use
>    DNS providers whose web-based tools cannot handle
>    sub-domains or underscore characters.

	Granted, said providers probably can't handle SPF
RRs or TXT records either. 

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