Re: http+srv worth its own URI scheme? (ISSUE-49 schemeProtocols-49)

What does it mean to have a "web server for a domain"? Given how email works, the idea of asking DNS for how to deliver an email address to a user at a *domain* makes perfect sense. But HTTP does translate into a clear purpose like SMTP does. Is this proposal mainly to get around issues with port 80 allocations?

EHL


On 2/23/09 10:32 AM, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org> wrote:

srv records for web servers seems like a fine idea,
long overdue; but I'm skeptical that it's worth a new URI scheme.

I'm interested to know whether Noah and other TAG members
have other opinions.

cf. ISSUE-49 schemeProtocols-49
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/49

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>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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>>      Title           : DNS SRV Records for HTTP
>>      Author(s)       : C. Jennings
>>      Filename        : draft-jennings-http-srv-01.txt
>>      Pages           : 7
>>      Date            : 2009-02-22
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>> This document specifies a new URI scheme called http+srv which uses a
>> DNS SRV lookup to locate a HTTP server.  The http+srv scheme operates
>> in the same way as an http scheme but instead of the normal DNS A
>> record lookup that a http scheme would use, it uses an DNS SRV
>> lookup.  This memo also defines a https+srv scheme that operates in
>> the same was a an https URI but uses DNS SRV lookups.
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>> The draft is being discussed on the apps-discuss@ietf.org list.
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