RE: hey dude

[Joel De G. <jo...@ta...>]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 22:40, Marc Canter wrote:
> How will PA and these others query pdns? Or more precise, how would you
> prefer? I can build a ton of different ways in, and most likely will,
> but I don't want to infringe into PA territory and what it is try to do.
> -joel

The basics here are:
yea, I can do all the lookups in the world and have a lot of this ready but I need to know how the best way
for PA to query the pdns.
I have fixed my sites on several specs for it, in a database world it needs:
1) a unique id.. any unique id, sha1 mailbox etc.. but better yet, a new form id that can handle multiple
sha1 id's to handle multiple mailboxes. I suggest property:id which can be tied to a pdns id for each id.
2) I am looking at submitting a RFC for the new foaf dns format (FOAF on a keypad = 3623) and handling 
various queries.. MX = mail, A = website, NS = authority server (tribe/livejournal/peoplesdns etc)
3) Ideas for way to integrate groups/sites/project/based_near/etc without stepping on the PA developers 
i.e. I don't want to infringe on areas that mess with PA ideas.. i.e. interactions..
4) user-A has two sub-users user-B and user-C, user-A has an email that is available to user-B and user-C so 
threfore the user-A has a new foaf property called "public-key" which allows those two users to send email to
user-A (user-B and user-C can email user-A, but user-Ba and user-Bb etc cannot, mostly to deter spammers.)
this should be a part of the dns system. 
BUT... this is just an idea and I am trying to work it all out.. input would be so very appreciated..

actually ANY ideas would be appreciated...

also note.. sorry if this is a little vauge but I am kind of off now thanks to some vodka and a long
day.. long long day...
-Joel