On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 08:02:52PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > Jeff, this works for me, but I don't think you really do the > spec's readers any favors by trying to reiterate the entire > history of terminology in this area (and, incidentally, leaving > things out that some folks might consider important like the > leading digit exception in 1123). Someday, someone should > produce a definitive DNS terminology document, but this spec > shouldn't try to be it. I think this is sound advice, and I think the rest of John's suggestion is also a good one. There are enough confusing interpretations of DNS terminology around without adding to them. (As to John's suggestion for a "definitive" DNS terminology document, all I can say is that it's hard enough to herd the DNS cats on topics where everyone seems roughly in agreement. Getting consensus on such a definitive document strikes me as more like trying to herd Schrödinger's cats.) A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf