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+Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Faltstrom
+Request for Comments: 7553 Netnod
+Category: Informational O. Kolkman
+ISSN: 2070-1721 ISOC
+ June 2015
+
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+ The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) DNS Resource Record
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document describes the already registered DNS resource record
+ (RR) type, called the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) RR, that is
+ used for publishing mappings from hostnames to URIs.
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+ This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
+ published for informational purposes.
+
+ This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
+ (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
+ received public review and has been approved for publication by the
+ Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
+ approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
+ Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
+
+ Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
+ and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
+ http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7553.
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+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 2. Applicability Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
+ 3. DNS Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 4. The Format of the URI RR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 4.1. Owner Name, Class, and Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 4.2. Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 4.3. Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 4.4. Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 4.5. URI RDATA Wire Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 5. Usages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 5.1. Example: FTP Server in the example.com Domain . . . . . . 6
+ 5.2. Relation to S-NAPTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
+ 5.3. Relation to U-NAPTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
+ 5.4. Relation to SRV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
+ 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
+ 6.1. Registration of the URI Resource Record Type . . . . . . 7
+ 6.2. Registration of Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ Appendix A. The Original RRTYPE Allocation Request . . . . . . . 11
+ Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
+ Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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+1. Introduction
+
+ This document explains the use of the Domain Name System (DNS) for
+ the storage of URIs [RFC3986] and how to resolve hostnames to such
+ URIs that can be used by various applications using the URI resource
+ record type. For resolution, the application needs to know both the
+ hostname and the protocol that the URI is to be used for. The
+ protocol is registered by IANA.
+
+ Historically, uses of the DNS to map a domain name to a URL have
+ relied on the Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) RRTYPEs [RFC2915] and
+ then on the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) [RFC3401]
+ application framework with the DNS as a database as specified in RFC
+ 3404 [RFC3404]. This has a number of implications such as the fact
+ the RRSet returned will contain all URIs "connected" with the owner,
+ and not only the ones related to a specific service.
+
+ The URI resource record specified in this document enables the
+ querying party to do the equivalent of selecting which of the NAPTR
+ records one is interested in and have only those returned. This is
+ possible because data in the service field of the NAPTR record is
+ included in the owner part of the URI resource record type. It is
+ also the case that as the URI resource record type includes the
+ target URI directly as part of the RDATA, it is very easy to extract
+ the correct target URI, instead of applying rewrite rules as in
+ NAPTR.
+
+ Querying for URI resource records is not replacing querying for NAPTR
+ resource records (or use of S-NAPTR [RFC3958]). Instead, the URI
+ resource record type provides a complementary mechanism to be used
+ when one already knows what service field is interesting. With it,
+ one can directly query for the specific subset of the otherwise
+ possibly large RRSet returned when querying for NAPTR resource
+ records.
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
+ document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119
+ [RFC2119].
+
+2. Applicability Statement
+
+ In general, it is expected that URI records will be used by clients
+ for applications where the relevant protocol to be used is known,
+ but, for example, an extra abstraction is needed in order to separate
+ a domain name from a point of service (as addressed by the URI). One
+ example of such a situation is when an organization has many domain
+ names but only one official web page.
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+ Applications need to know the specific service to prepend the
+ hostname with. Using repetitive queries for URI records is not a
+ replacement for querying for NAPTR records according to the NAPTR
+ (DDDS) or S-NAPTR algorithms. NAPTR records serve the purpose of
+ discovering the various services or the URIs (for looking up access
+ points for a given service). These are two very different kinds of
+ needs.
+
+3. DNS Considerations
+
+ Using prefix labels, such as underscored service tags, for a specific
+ owner name may cause a counter-intuitive effect when the owner name
+ is a wildcard name. For example, _s2._s1.*.example.net is not a
+ wildcard name and cannot be used to return a synthesized answer for a
+ query name of _s2._s1.a.example.net. See Section 4.5 of RFC 4592
+ [RFC4592] for more details. Besides, underscored service tags used
+ for the URI RR (based on the "Service Name and Transport Protocol
+ Port Number Registry") may have slightly different semantics than
+ service tags used for underscored prefix labels that are used in
+ combination with other (yet unspecified) RR types. This may cause
+ subtle management problems when delegation structure that has
+ developed within the context of URI RRs is also to be used for other
+ RR types. Because the service labels might be overloaded,
+ applications should carefully check that the application-level
+ protocol is indeed the protocol they expect.
+
+ Subtle management issues may also arise when the delegations from
+ service to sub-service labels involve several parties and different
+ stakeholders.
+
+4. The Format of the URI RR
+
+ This is the presentation format of the URI RR:
+
+ Owner name TTL Class URI Priority Weight Target
+
+ The URI RR does not cause any kind of Additional Section processing.
+
+4.1. Owner Name, Class, and Type
+
+ The URI owner name is subject to special conventions.
+
+ Just like the SRV RR [RFC2782], the URI RR has service information
+ encoded in its owner name. In order to encode the service for a
+ specific owner name, one uses service parameters. Valid service
+ parameters are those registered by IANA in the "Service Name and
+ Transport Protocol Port Number Registry" [RFC6335] or as "Enumservice
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+ Registrations [RFC6117]. The Enumservice Registration parameters are
+ reversed (i.e., subtype(s) before type), prepended with an underscore
+ (_), and prepended to the owner name in separate labels. The
+ underscore is prepended to the service parameters to avoid collisions
+ with DNS labels that occur in nature, and the order is reversed to
+ make it possible to do delegations, if needed, to different zones
+ (and therefore providers of DNS).
+
+ For example, suppose we are looking for the URI for a service with
+ ENUM Service Parameter "A:B:C" for host example.com. Then we would
+ query for (QNAME,QTYPE)=("_C._B._A.example.com","URI").
+
+ As another example, suppose we are looking for the URI for a service
+ with Service Name "A" and Transport Protocol "B" for host
+ example.com. Then we would query for
+ (QNAME,QTYPE)=("_A._B.example.com","URI").
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+ The type number for the URI record is 256.
+
+ The URI resource record is class independent.
+
+ The URI RR has no special Time-to-Live (TTL) requirements.
+
+4.2. Priority
+
+ This field holds the priority of the target URI in this RR. Its
+ range is 0-65535. A client MUST attempt to contact the URI with the
+ lowest-numbered priority it can reach; URIs with the same priority
+ SHOULD be selected according to probabilities defined by the weight
+ field.
+
+4.3. Weight
+
+ This field holds the server selection mechanism. The weight field
+ specifies a relative weight for entries with the same priority.
+ Larger weights SHOULD be given a proportionately higher probability
+ of being selected. The range of this number is 0-65535.
+
+4.4. Target
+
+ This field holds the URI of the target, enclosed in double-quote
+ characters ('"'), where the URI is as specified in RFC 3986
+ [RFC3986]. Resolution of the URI is according to the definitions for
+ the Scheme of the URI.
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+ Since the URI will not be encoded as a <character-string> (see
+ Section 3.3 of RFC 1035 [RFC1035]), there is no 255-character size
+ limitation.
+
+ The Target MUST NOT be an empty URI ("").
+
+4.5. URI RDATA Wire Format
+
+ The RDATA for a URI RR consists of a 2-octet Priority field, a
+ 2-octet Weight field, and a variable-length Target field.
+
+ Priority and Weight are unsigned integers in network byte order.
+
+ The remaining data in the RDATA contains the Target field. The
+ Target field contains the URI as a sequence of octets (without the
+ enclosing double-quote characters used in the presentation format).
+
+ The length of the Target field MUST be greater than zero.
+
+ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | Priority | Weight |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ / /
+ / Target /
+ / /
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+5. Usages
+
+5.1. Example: FTP Server in the example.com Domain
+
+ An organization has the domain names example.com and example.net, and
+ their FTP archive is at ftp://ftp1.example.com/public. Given the
+ service name "ftp" and transport protocol "tcp" (from the IANA
+ "Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry"), the
+ following URI resource records could be made available in the
+ respective zones (example.com and example.net):
+
+ $ORIGIN example.com.
+ _ftp._tcp IN URI 10 1 "ftp://ftp1.example.com/public"
+
+ $ORIGIN example.net.
+ _ftp._tcp IN URI 10 1 "ftp://ftp1.example.com/public"
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+5.2. Relation to S-NAPTR
+
+ The URI resource record type is not a replacement for the S-NAPTR.
+ It is instead an extension and the second step of the S-NAPTR
+ resolution can resolve a URI resource record instead of using SRV
+ records and yet another algorithm for how to use SRV records for the
+ specific protocol.
+
+ $ORIGIN example.com.
+ ;; order pref flags
+ IN NAPTR 100 10 "D" "EM:ProtA" ( ; service
+ "" ; regexp
+ _http._tcp.example.com. ) ; replacement
+
+ _http._tcp IN URI 10 1 "http://www.example.com/path"
+
+5.3. Relation to U-NAPTR
+
+ The URI resource record type, together with S-NAPTR, can be viewed as
+ a replacement for U-NAPTR [RFC4848]. The URI resource record type is
+ only interesting when one know a base domain name, a protocol, and a
+ service so that one can compose the record to look up. NAPTR records
+ of any kind are used to look up what services exist for a certain
+ domain, which is one step before the URI resource record is used.
+
+5.4. Relation to SRV
+
+ The URI resource record type can be viewed as a replacement for the
+ SRV record. This is because it, like the SRV record, can only be
+ looked up if one knows the base domain, the protocol, and the
+ service. It has a similar functionality and uses the same registry
+ for service names, but instead of returning a hostname and port
+ number, the URI record returns a full URI. As such, it can be viewed
+ as a more powerful resource record than SRV.
+
+6. IANA Considerations
+
+6.1. Registration of the URI Resource Record Type
+
+ After an expert review in February 2011 (see Appendix A), IANA
+ allocated RRTYPE 256 for the URI resource record type in the registry
+ named "Resource Record (RR) TYPEs" (as defined in [BCP42], which was
+ RFC 6195 at the time but has since been replaced by RFC 6895) located
+ at <http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters>.
+
+ IANA has updated the reference for this registration to refer to this
+ RFC.
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+ No new registry is needed for the registration of services as the
+ Service Name, Transport Protocol Port Numbers, Enumservices and the
+ DNS SRV Service Type registries are also used for the URI resource
+ record type.
+
+7. Security Considerations
+
+ Using the URI resource record together with security mechanisms that
+ rely on verification of authentication of hostnames, like TLS, makes
+ it important to choose the correct domain name when doing the
+ comparison and ensure that the change in the hostname to be used is
+ secured by DNSSEC so that it can be trusted in a similar way as a
+ redirect in HTTP using TLS.
+
+ If, for example, the URI resource record is not signed with the help
+ of DNSSEC and then validated successfully, trusting the non-signed
+ URI will effectively lead to a downgrade attack.
+
+ The basic mechanism for successful use of URI works as follows:
+
+ 1. Announce that example.com is hosted at example.org (with some
+ URL) in DNS.
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+ 2. Secure the URI resource record with DNSSEC. This is best done
+ by doing validation in the application doing the lookup, but it
+ could also be done in the local recursive resolver or in the
+ trusted recursive resolver also doing validation. All are
+ according to the local trust policy.
+
+ 3. Verify the TLS (for example) certificate for the connection to
+ example.org matches, i.e., use the hostname in the URI and not
+ the hostname used originally when looking up the URI resource
+ record.
+
+ 4. If needed, do application-layer authentication, etc., over the
+ then encrypted connection.
+
+ It is also possible that the URI in the resource record type has
+ errors in it. Applications using the URI resource record type for
+ resolution should behave similarly as if the user typed (or copied
+ and pasted) the URI. At least it must be clear to the user that the
+ error is not due to any error from his side.
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+ One SHOULD NOT include userinfo (see "User Information",
+ Section 3.2.1 of RFC 3986 [RFC3986]) in a URI that is used in a URI
+ resource record as DNS data must be viewed as publicly available
+ information.
+
+8. References
+
+8.1. Normative References
+
+ [BCP42] Eastlake 3rd, D., "Domain Name System (DNS) IANA
+ Considerations", BCP 42, RFC 6895, April 2013,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp42>.
+
+ [RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
+ specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, DOI 10.17487/RFC1035,
+ November 1987, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1035>.
+
+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
+ DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
+
+ [RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
+ Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
+ RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986>.
+
+ [RFC6117] Hoeneisen, B., Mayrhofer, A., and J. Livingood, "IANA
+ Registration of Enumservices: Guide, Template, and IANA
+ Considerations", RFC 6117, DOI 10.17487/RFC6117, March
+ 2011, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6117>.
+
+ [RFC6335] Cotton, M., Eggert, L., Touch, J., Westerlund, M., and S.
+ Cheshire, "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
+ Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and
+ Transport Protocol Port Number Registry", BCP 165,
+ RFC 6335, DOI 10.17487/RFC6335, August 2011,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6335>.
+
+8.2. Informative References
+
+ [RFC2782] Gulbrandsen, A., Vixie, P., and L. Esibov, "A DNS RR for
+ specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)", RFC 2782,
+ DOI 10.17487/RFC2782, February 2000,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2782>.
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+ [RFC2915] Mealling, M. and R. Daniel, "The Naming Authority Pointer
+ (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record", RFC 2915,
+ DOI 10.17487/RFC2915, September 2000,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2915>.
+
+ [RFC3401] Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
+ Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS", RFC 3401,
+ DOI 10.17487/RFC3401, October 2002,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3401>.
+
+ [RFC3403] Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
+ Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database",
+ RFC 3403, DOI 10.17487/RFC3403, October 2002,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3403>.
+
+ [RFC3404] Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
+ Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)",
+ RFC 3404, DOI 10.17487/RFC3404, October 2002,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3404>.
+
+ [RFC3597] Gustafsson, A., "Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record
+ (RR) Types", RFC 3597, DOI 10.17487/RFC3597, September
+ 2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3597>.
+
+ [RFC3958] Daigle, L. and A. Newton, "Domain-Based Application
+ Service Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation
+ Discovery Service (DDDS)", RFC 3958, DOI 10.17487/RFC3958,
+ January 2005, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3958>.
+
+ [RFC4592] Lewis, E., "The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name
+ System", RFC 4592, DOI 10.17487/RFC4592, July 2006,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4592>.
+
+ [RFC4848] Daigle, L., "Domain-Based Application Service Location
+ Using URIs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service
+ (DDDS)", RFC 4848, DOI 10.17487/RFC4848, April 2007,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4848>.
+
+ [RFC5507] IAB, Faltstrom, P., Ed., Austein, R., Ed., and P. Koch,
+ Ed., "Design Choices When Expanding the DNS", RFC 5507,
+ DOI 10.17487/RFC5507, April 2009,
+ <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5507>.
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+Appendix A. The Original RRTYPE Allocation Request
+
+ On February 22, 2011 IANA assigned RRTYPE 256 for the URI resource
+ record based on a request that followed the procedure documented in
+ [BCP42] (which was RFC 6195 at the time but has since been replaced
+ by RFC 6895). The DNS RRTYPE PARAMETER ALLOCATION form as submitted
+ to IANA at that time is replicated below for reference.
+
+ Note: Although "ownername" should be "owner name", "ownername" has
+ been preserved below because it was part of the original request form
+ submitted to IANA.
+
+ A. Submission Date:
+
+ May 23, 2009
+
+ B. Submission Type:
+
+ [X] New RRTYPE
+ [ ] Modification to existing RRTYPE
+
+ C. Contact Information for submitter:
+
+ Name: Patrik Faltstrom
+ Email Address: paf@cisco.com
+ International telephone number: +46-8-6859131
+ Other contact handles:
+ (Note: This information will be publicly posted.)
+
+ D. Motivation for the new RRTYPE application?
+
+ There is no easy way to get from a domain name to a URI. Some
+ mechanisms exists via use of the NAPTR [RFC3403] resource
+ record. That implies quite complicated rules that are
+ simplified via the S-NAPTR [RFC3958] specification. But, the
+ ability to directly look up a URI still exists. This
+ specification uses a prefix based naming mechanism originated in
+ the definition of the SRV [RFC2782] resource record, and the
+ RDATA is a URI, encoded as one text field.
+
+ See also above (Section 1).
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+ E. Description of the proposed RR type.
+
+ The format of the URI resource record is as follows:
+
+ Ownername TTL Class URI Priority Weight Target
+
+ The URI RR has service information encoded in its ownername. In
+ order to encode the service for a specific ownername one uses
+ service parameters. Valid service parameters used are either
+ Enumservice Registrations registered by IANA, or prefixes used
+ for the SRV resource record.
+
+ The wire format of the RDATA is as follows:
+
+ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | Priority | Weight |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ / /
+ / Target /
+ / /
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ F. What existing RRTYPE or RRTYPEs come closest to filling that
+ need and why are they unsatisfactory?
+
+ The RRTYPE that come closest is the NAPTR resource record. It
+ is for example used in the DDDS and S-NAPTR algorithms. The
+ main problem with the NAPTR is that selection of what record (or
+ records) one is interested in is based on data stored in the
+ RDATA portion of the NAPTR resource record. This, as explained
+ in RFC 5507 [RFC5507], is not optimal for DNS lookups. Further,
+ most applications using NAPTR resource records uses regular
+ expression based rewrite rules for creation of the URI, and that
+ has shown be complicated to implement.
+
+ The second closest RRTYPE is the SRV record that given a
+ prefixed based naming just like is suggested for the URI
+ resource record, one get back a port number and domain name.
+ This can also be used for creation of a URI, but, only URIs
+ without path components.
+
+ G. What mnemonic is requested for the new RRTYPE (optional)?
+
+ URI
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+ H. Does the requested RRTYPE make use of any existing IANA Registry
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+ One of the mechanisms to select a service is to use the
+ Enumservice Registry managed by IANA. Another is to use
+ services and protocols used for SRV records.
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+ resolvers that prevent the new type from being processed as an
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+Acknowledgements
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+ Ideas on how to split the two different kinds of queries, "What
+ services exists for this domain name" and "What is the URI for this
+ service", came from Scott Bradner and Lawrence Conroy. Other people
+ that have contributed to this document include Richard Barnes, Leslie
+ Daigle, Victor Dukhovni, Olafur Gudmundsson, Philip Hallam-Baker, Ted
+ Hardie, Sam Hartman, Evan Hunt, John Klensin, Peter Koch, Eliot Lear,
+ Andy Newton, Mark Nottingham, Penn Pfautz, Jinmei Tatuya, Willem
+ Toorop, and Nico Williams.
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+ Cisco is acknowledged as Mr. Faltstrom's employer at the time this
+ document was developed.
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+ The NLnet Labs is acknowledged as Mr. Kolkman's employer at the time
+ this document was developed.
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+Authors' Addresses
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+ Patrik Faltstrom
+ Netnod
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+ EMail: paf@netnod.se
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+ Olaf Kolkman
+ Internet Society
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+ EMail: kolkman@isoc.org
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