Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Regarding draft-ietf-dane-srv, I think it would be good to agree on
> our terminology in this space.

Yes.

> For example, RFC 6125 uses the terms "source domain" and "derived
> domain" whereas draft-ietf-dane-srv uses the terms "service domain" and
> "target server host name". Jeff Hodges and I tried to make our
> terminology in RFC 6125 both clear and consistent with RFC 2782. If we
> failed in that regard, please let us know (we do plan to work on 6125bis
> at some point). If not, I suggest that we try to align
> draft-ietf-dane-srv with RFC 6125.

I think I would prefer to stay closer to RFC 2782 terms, something like
"SRV Name field" and "SRV Target field", perhaps. As I understand it, the
RFC 6125 terms are generic, intended to apply to more situations than just
SRV indirections. I want to keep this spec as concrete and direct as I
can.

The reason for the current terminology is that I want to emphasize the
difference between host names (to which TLSA records are related) and
domain names (a more general concept). There is also some hangover from
the earlier MX-specific version, where "mail domain" and "MX target host
name" is fairly normal terminology.

Thank you for the feedback.

Tony.
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