--On Tuesday, August 30, 2022 16:28 -0700 Fred Baker
<fredbaker.ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A fully qualified domain name has no dependence on context -
> "first-hop.example.com" would be an example of a fully
> qualified domain name. Anything else - something that to be
> understood requires a reference to context - would not be
> fully qualified.
Fred,
Right. But context is still needed to know it is a domain name,
and not some other sort of identifier. As examples, one of the
issues associated with the GNS effort (see draft-schanzen-gns)
is how one know to look a given string up in the GNS or the DNS
by looking at it. Although some other may not, you have been
around this stuff to remember when there was such a thing as a
JANET name in which the labels were little-endian rather than
big-endian. There are also many systems in which a
dot-separated set of substrings are not only not DNS names but
may not even imply a monohierarchy.
So, yes, but...
best,
john
