On Jun 17, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:49:47AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >>> "Name Error" as a synonym for NXDOMAIN seems like it is worth including, >>> somewhere. >> >> Are you sure that "name error" always refers to NXDOMAIN? If not, this is >> not a can of worms we should open. >> > > To the extent it doesn't, such usage is not in line with STD 13. > NXDOMAIN is the neologism here. RFC 1035 names RCODE 3 as "Name > Error".
I'll add a note about that. > >>> In "origin", (a), the usual word for this in my experience is "apex". It >>> would seem as well to mention apex here. If we're able to provide value >>> judgements, we might recommend apex over this use of origin. >> >> "Apex" is defined two terms later". >> > > I think Joe is right that people usually use "apex" to mean "origin" > in the way the document defines it. I think we are attempting to > reinforce a distinction that used to be in the RFCs but that seems to > have blurred over time: the difference between the graph-theoretic > space of the DNS and the implementation. It might be worth adding a > sentence, however, that notes the way the terms are often used > interchangably. I'll add a note to that effect to each of the definitions, and move the two definitions to be adjacent. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
