RFC 8553 Best Current Practice Authentication

DNS Attrleaf Changes: Fixing Specifications That Use Underscored Node Names

Using an underscore for a prefix creates a space for constrained interoperation of resource records. Original uses of an underscore character as a domain node name prefix were specified without the benefit of an IANA registry. This produced an entirely uncoordinated set of name-creation activities, all drawing from the same namespace. A registry for these names has now been defined by RFC 8552. However, the existing specifications that use underscored naming need to be modified in order to be in line with the new r

Status
Best Current Practice. Not a protocol specification. Operational guidance the community has agreed on.
Published
March 2019
Authors
D. Crocker
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Normative requirements

Every sentence in this RFC carrying an RFC 2119 keyword, with the section it came from. 0 must, 2 should, 0 may.

3.1 SRV Specification Changes

  • SHOULDThe SRV RRset 'protocol' (global) underscored node name SHOULD be registered in the IANA "Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Names" registry [RFC8552].

3.2 URI Specification Changes

  • SHOULDAs for the SRV RRset [RFC2782], the URI RRset global (highest- level) underscored node name SHOULD be registered in the IANA "Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Names" registry [RFC8552].

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