Todd

I hate to get all DNS-y on you but the DNS terminology draft discusses Apex
and Origin in regards to Zones/Domains:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc8499bis-10.html#name-zones

(DNSOP spent 6 months trying to clean up the definition of "Glue Records"
to some success)

tim


On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 9:40 AM Todd Herr <todd.herr=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> I note that lately in various email fora that the term "apex domain" has
> found some favor, said term being used interchangeably with "organizational
> domain", and having the same contextual meaning as "organizational domain".
>
> DMARCbis does not contain the word "apex", nor did RFC 7489 before it.
>
> My question here is, should DMARCbis at least mention the term "apex
> domain", perhaps in section 3.2.9, Organizational Domain. The entirety of
> that section currently reads:
>
> The Organizational Domain for any domain is determined by applying the
> algorithm found in Section 4.8
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-28.html#organizational-domain-discovery>
> .
>
>
> Does it make sense to change that to
>
> The Organizational Domain for any domain is determined by applying the
> algorithm found in Section 4.8
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-28.html#organizational-domain-discovery>.
> The Organizational Domain is also sometimes referred to as the Apex Domain.
>
>
> Discuss...
>
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