Ed,
I find the document useful, and illuminating, but that it suffers from
one glaring omission -- no substantive discussion of the relationship between
domain names and URIs (the related term "URN"[1] is mentioned in Section 1.2,
but never expanded upon). To be sure, while the "Authority" component of a URI
is not *always* based on a DNS name (or a "domain name", as distinguished in
your Draft), it _usually_ is, and RFC 3986, aka STD 66, makes the relationship
quite explicit:
"However, a globally scoped naming
system, such as DNS fully qualified domain names, is necessary for
URIs intended to have global scope. URI producers should use names
that conform to the DNS syntax, even when use of DNS is not
immediately apparent ..."
So, names in URI "Authority"s should *look* like DNS-style FQDNs, even if some
other "Authority" resolution-and/or-uniqueness-guaranteeing mechanism underpins
the particular Scheme.
Since URIs are so commonplace in modern communication mechanisms (including one
little app called web browsing :-), I think the tie-in between URIs and domain
names should at least be mentioned in a comprehensive "domain names" document.
- Kevin
[1] As per STD 66: "Future specifications and related documentation should use
the general term 'URI' rather than the more restrictive terms 'URL' and 'URN'".
-----Original Message-----
From: DNSOP [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Lewis
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 3:59 PM
To: dnsop
Subject: [DNSOP] draft-lewis-domain-names-00.txt
Don't know if this will be posted to DNSOP some other way.
(I've gotten one private comment, so it's been announced somewhere,
someway.)
On 9/17/15, 13:50, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Name: draft-lewis-domain-names
>Revision: 00
>Title: Domain Names
>Document date: 2015-09-17
>Group: Individual Submission
>Pages: 13
>URL:
>https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lewis-domain-names-00.txt
>Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lewis-domain-names/
>Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lewis-domain-names-00
>
>
>Abstract:
>This document states a definition of Domain Name beyond the use of the
>term within the Domain Name System. The document includes a survey of
>the diverse ways Domain Names have been interpreted within various
>protocols over time. The purpose of this is to give a solid foundation
>for work on Domain Names across all protocols making use of Domain
>Names.
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