On 16 Sep 2015, at 1:55, Benoit Claise wrote:
- From the shepherd writeup:
"One issue raised by the Working Group was that such a list of
definitions would be best served with some sort of Index.
The authors and the Document Shepherd agree, but feel it would be
better
served being handled during the editing process."
What/when is the editing process? AUTH48? Why wait?
See mail from the shepherd on this topic.
- "Most of the definitions here are believed to be the consensus
definition of the DNS community - both protocol developers and
operators."
I hope we can write: "Most of the definitions here are the consensus
definition of the DNS community - both protocol developers and
operators.", leaving no doubts about the process.
Good catch; will fix.
- "Further, some terms that
are defined in early DNS RFCs now have definitions that are generally
agreed to, but that are different from the original definitions.
Therefore, the authors intend to follow this document with a
substantial revision in the not-distant future. That revision will
probably have more in-depth discussion of some terms as well as new
terms; it will also update some of the RFCs with new definitions."
You lost me here. Do you want a new revision of this document, or
revisions of early DNS RFCs, or both?
And why do you say "That revision will probably have more in-depth
discussion of some terms".
Does it mean that THIS document is not final? This is the way I read
it.
You read it correctly. The WG came to agreement on the need for a
document that repeated the definitions from the RFCs in one place, that
we should point out where RFCs disagreed with each other, that this RFC
should not update RFCs even if their definitions are wrong, and that a
later revision of this document will update those RFCs. The reason for
that last point is that there were a fair number of places where the WG
could not come to consensus yet, but might later with significantly more
work.
--Paul Hoffman
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