Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:04:54AM -0400, > Matt Larson <m...@kahlerlarson.org> wrote > a message of 41 lines which said: > > > I'd venture that more people familiar with the subject matter would > > define QNAME as the name in the question section of a DNS message. > > (That's my sense of the definition, FWIW.) > > What about adding this text to the Terminology section of the draft? > > <t>"QNAME": it is defined in <xref target="RFC1034"/> and > in <xref target="RFC1035"/>, section 4.1.2, but, because <xref > target="RFC2308"/> provides a different definition, we repeat the > original one here: the QNAME is the owner name of the record in the > Question section.</t>
The QNAME is a domain name, but is it an owner name? There is no owned record data in the question section (and the entries in the question section are not RRs). -- Robert Edmonds _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
