My intention with the original draft I wrote
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dnsop-eden-alias-rr-type-00 was to
provide just the basics. If anyone is interested we can always try to
resuscitate that draft at some point.

-Anthony

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:03 AM Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:

> Erik Nygren <erik+i...@nygren.org> wrote:
>
> > I don't follow how this works for the non-trivial static case.
> > You have two authoritative parties, one for the authoritative zone
> > and one authoritative for the ANAME target.
> > Both are operated by different entities.
> >
> > The logic and policy for the ANAME target (involving geo-ip, GSLB, etc)
> > is often highly dynamic and proprietary.  How does this get conveyed
> > from the authorities for the ANAME target to the authorities for the zone
> > containing the ANAME?  This is where we seem to get stuck.
>
> I imagine a boiled-dry draft would leave this unspecified, allowing
> implementations to be as lazy or eager as they want. I think this
> enthusiasm to accurately reproduce all the crazy DNS tricks is doomed to
> failure, and not actually necessary. If a domain owner really truly wants
> to spread their domain with Brand X secret sauce they can get Brand X to
> host it, and if they can live with a cheap 3rd party ANAME knock-off then
> that can be done much more simply.
>
> Tony.
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