On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Robert Edmonds <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:04:54AM -0400, > > Matt Larson <[email protected]> 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). > Yes, I agree. I suggest "the QNAME is the domain name that appears in the Question section of a DNS message". -- Shumon Huque
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