On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, at 18:00, Owen Friel (ofriel) wrote: > Not sure why "domainNamespace" is used as the field when "subdomains" > is shorter and easier to understand. > > > [ofriel] there was early discussion on the mailer about what exactly a > 'subdomain' meant. So we quoted the CA/B Browser baseline definitions > and used that terminology instead. Note that the draft is not > restricted to web use cases, so basing terminology on CA/B is not by > any means mandatory. I have no strong preference on what we call the > field at all - subdomains and namespaces are both used in the draft, > so happy to change to whatever is clearest.
RFC 8499: Subdomain: "A domain is a subdomain of another domain if it is contained within that domain. I found "namespaces" confusing. I don't think we need to borrow CA/BF obfuscations. _______________________________________________ Acme mailing list Acme@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/acme