> Hmm. What if this changed to "The identifier of an individual node in
> the sequence of nodes identifier by a fully-qualified domain name"? I
> think that would get rid of the quibble you have and still emphasise
> that it's one node in a sequence.
>
> The point is that the label is an identifier of a node, not the node
> itself. The discussion of this in RFC 1034 is quite long and never
> actually offers the definition as such. So we want to note that the
> label identifies one node in the sequence of nodes.
>
> Does that work?
Yes, that works with a minor typo fix:
"sequence of nodes identifier" -> "sequence of nodes identified"
And we agree on the primary point of my original comment.
Thanks,
--David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:03 PM
> To: Black, David
> Cc: Paul Hoffman; [email protected]; General Area Review Team ([email protected]);
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-
> terminology-03
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 01:28:11PM +0000, Black, David wrote:
> > > > [B] 2. Names - p.4
> > > >
> > > > Label: The identifier of an individual node in the sequence of nodes
> > > > that comprise a fully-qualified domain name.
>
> > In other words, I would have expected the fully-qualified domain name
> > to be a sequence of labels, each of which is an identifier that identifies
> > a node, making a fully qualified domain name a "sequence of identifiers",
> > not a "sequence of nodes". Of course the "sequence of identifiers" in
> > an FQDN identifies a "sequence of nodes".
>
> Hmm. What if this changed to "The identifier of an individual node in
> the sequence of nodes identifier by a fully-qualified domain name"? I
> think that would get rid of the quibble you have and still emphasise
> that it's one node in a sequence.
>
> The point is that the label is an identifier of a node, not the node
> itself. The discussion of this in RFC 1034 is quite long and never
> actually offers the definition as such. So we want to note that the
> label identifies one node in the sequence of nodes.
>
> Does that work?
>
> A
>
>
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> [email protected]
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