On 02/02/2016 15:21, RFC Errata System wrote:
> Type: Technical > Reported by: Nikolai Malykh <[email protected]> > > Section: 2 > > Original Text > ------------- > CNAME: "It is traditional to refer to the owner of a CNAME record as > 'a CNAME'. This is unfortunate, as 'CNAME' is an abbreviation of > 'canonical name', and the owner of a CNAME record is most certainly > not a canonical name." (Quoted from [RFC2181], Section 10.1.1) > > > Corrected Text > -------------- > CNAME: "It is traditional to refer to the label of a CNAME record as > 'a CNAME'. This is unfortunate, as 'CNAME' is an abbreviation of > 'canonical name', and the label of a CNAME record is an alias, not > a canonical name." (Quoted from [RFC2181], Section 10.1.1) > > Notes > ----- > Incorrect quote from RFC 2181. Arguably "owner" is more accurate - the owner name of a CNAME can comprise multiple labels (and usually will once fully qualified. That said, if the intent was to "correct" the quote from RFC 2181 then RFC 7719 probably should have said so. Ray _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
