[LEAPSECS] Bulletin C and all that

[Rob Seaman]

On Feb 10, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Clive D.W. Feather <clive at davros.org> wrote:

> Zefram said:
>> My concern is more about the risk of colliding with some other protocol.
> 
> The answer is to not pervert A (or AAA) records for a purpose they are not
> designed for. Either use TXT records or, even better, make the data
> available as an XML file over HTML.

Since only forward references are being used, how could this collide with anybody but wayward wifi at Starbuck's, etc?

As far as perverting A records, this seems completely within the purview of class E: "Mutually consenting devices could use these numbers for whatever purposes they desire" (rfc3692).

Rob