Hi Dave, At 15:49 26-03-2009, Dave CROCKER wrote: >The best I can find is two kinds of distinction. The term >"hostname" refers to >a constraint on use of the full Domain Name namespace. The term "registered" >appears to be the way of distinguishing names that appear in the operational >service, ie, the public database.
The problem with this document is that it is not a specification about DNS and the reader may not restrict his/her interpretation to that only. People commonly view the term "registered" as meaning that the domain name has been registered through a registry. You can get away with that by specifying "registered in DNS". Generally, we don't have to go to such lengths as it is implicit that the domain name should be resolvable. Given the amount of debate we have been having about DKIM, some people might prefer to have all the details nailed down so that we don't have to argue about this again in future. Some people will come up and say that "registered in DNS" means that the domain name must also be registered through a registry. > A single domain name -> A single, syntactically valid domain name I don't know and I prefer not to know, whether there are syntactically invalid domain names. :-) If I want to know what a "single domain name" is, I'll see what the RFCs say. My statement is not a case of "the RFC says so" as I am not an advocate of such an argument. I refer to the relevant text as, in my eyes, it provides a good explanation as to why we do things in a particular manner. There isn't any requirement that DKIM must only be used on the public Internet. In practice, most users of the technology will be on the Internet. Let's agree about the term without constraining where DKIM can be used. I suggest using "a domain name". I don't see the point of having "single" in that text as the public key retrieval will fail if we use more than one domain name. If the WG wants to be precise, I'm fine with that. The interpretation of domain name here is within the context of DNS. For those of you who don't understand what that means, please talk with the DNS folks. They are highly skilled in the art of frustrating application designers when that question is raised. :-) Regards, -sm _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
