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
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