[dns-operations] HTTPS record support

[Viktor Dukhovni]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 12:26:44PM +0200, Florian Weimer via dns-operations wrote:

> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:26:44 +0200
> Subject: HTTPS record support
> To: dns-operations at dns-oarc.net
> 
> I've got an RFE to add HTTPS/SVCB support to glibc's getaddrinfo
> implementation.

Why?  It seems an unnatural layer violation.  The IP addressses of a DNS
name are NOT provided by its HTTPS or SVCB records.  IP address lookups
make sense only *after* a higher layer application API that understands
whether or not and which of either SVCB or HTTPS records may be
relevant, processes those records and determines which target IP
addresses and ports it wants to connect to, and over what transports.

> To get an idea whether this makes sense given the getaddrinfo API
> constraints, I need to know more about actual deployment.

I don't see how it can possibly make sense.  Where is the rationale for
this "RFC"?

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