On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 05:20:19PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Robert L Mathews <[email protected]> said:
> >The ANAME draft would have offered an immediate alternative to any DNS 
> >operator who wanted it, that worked 100% of the time, without needing 
> >any client updates. ...
> 
> I am intrigued at the idea that browsers take a decade to update while
> DNS servers update instantly.

Agreed. Everybody's used to regular browser updates now.

I was the original author of the ANAME draft, and I thought it was a
terrible idea, and said so at the time. The only reason I wrote it was that
I believed browser vendors would remain unwilling to adopt a more sensible
alternative, and as soon as my pessimism turned out to be unfounded, I was
quite happy to drop the proposal.

-- 
Evan Hunt -- [email protected]
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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