Hi, On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:16:28AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > > Regarding the definition of referrals from older RFCs, see my > terminology review from May 2015: > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg14243.html
Yes, it's your review that has caused this issue :) > I think that quote implies that other less formal uses of "closer" > specifically mean downward in the DNS tree. That's plausible. > So I think unqualified "referral" means "downward referral" (from > authoritative data) I'm not totally convinced, but I can certainly see the argument. If we added to the text I proposed something like, "Many people use the unqualified term 'referral' to mean only a downward referral," would that help? > answer the query. I have also seen the term "implicit referral" meaning > the authority section from a recursive response, since the idea was that a > downstream cache might use those records to answer future queries more > efficiently (though doing that is no longer considered safe). Hmm. It seems like we ought to add that point about implicit referral. I wonder how this is related to the "partial referral" Mark is talking about (see elsewhere in this thread). Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
