On 5/2/2011 7:32 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
I disagree that "whitelisting" is a reserved trademark of the anti-abuse community.  It's a general 
term for a list of things that are granted something.  Likewise with "blacklist" and 
"deny".  Which means it's perfectly appropriate for this document.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist>


Richard,

The trademark model is interesting and probably useful here.

Trademarks have context.

Search on "whitelist dns"

Since there is long-standing practice of anti-abuse use of the term for A records there as no doubt it would be -- and indeed is -- need to use it for AAAA records.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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