> Stephane Bortzmeyer <mailto:[email protected]> > Friday, March 06, 2015 5:30 AM > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 02:10:50PM -0800, > [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote > a message of 43 lines which said: > >> Title : DNS Terminology > > What about adding a definition of "public suffix"? I suggest the text > from > <https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/InternetDomainNameExplained>: > >> Public suffix: A domain under which people can register subdomains, >> and on which cookies should not be set. [with good examples >> afterwards]
i object to the term "suffix", which sounds like a CP/M "file extension", like TXT in "FOOBAR.TXT", and is actually meant and used that way, by people who don't realize that "FOOBAR.TXT" in DNS is more closely aligned with "OTHERNAME.TXT" than it is with "FOOBAR.COM". in other words, the right-to-left precedence is deliberately obscured by the wrong-think term "suffix". i suggest that we invent rather than import. i like "DMD = Delegation-Mostly Domain". this allows for not just infrastructure namespaces like IP6.INT (for which delegations might not be on the first sublabel, and the delegations are often same-organization or other-DMD organizations) and also for new invented terms like "Public DMD" to describe domains like CO.UK (or COM) for which the delegation points are on the first sublabel and nearly always accompany an administrative boundary (so, different-organization below the cut.) -- Paul Vixie
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