Comment by quotemstr

One disappointment you can't help but feel, having worked in technology a while, is about how people solve the same problems over and over in redundant and subtly incompatible ways.

How do you associate metadata with a public name? A SRV record! No, a TXT record! No, a meta tag! No, data attributes! No, an X.509 attribute! No, a random file at top level! No, a well known file under some schema! No, ...

It goes on forever. We're left with a mishmash of mechanisms and lowest common denominator support for them all.

It would be nice if we picked an extension mechanism and maximally enhanced it rather than having everyone invent his own