On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 10:53:36AM -0800,
Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote
a message of 135 lines which said:
> i object to the term "suffix", which sounds like a CP/M "file
> extension", like TXT in "FOOBAR.TXT",
I do not see the relationship. I was suggesting "public suffix"
precisely to avoid the marketing and fuzzy "extension".
> in other words, the right-to-left precedence is deliberately
> obscured by the wrong-think term "suffix".
Not everyone is little-endian, some people think big-endian :-) Do you
think Paul Mockapetris is a close parent of Paul Vixie ? :-)
> i suggest that we invent rather than import.
"Public suffix" is:
* actually in use
* technically correct ("ac.uk is the public suffix of
www.physics.cam.ac.uk")
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