On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, at 18:00, Owen Friel (ofriel) wrote:
> Not sure why "domainNamespace" is used as the field when "subdomains"
> is shorter and easier to understand.
>
>
> [ofriel] there was early discussion on the mailer about what exactly a
> 'subdomain' meant. So we quoted the CA/B Browser baseline definitions
> and used that terminology instead. Note that the draft is not
> restricted to web use cases, so basing terminology on CA/B is not by
> any means mandatory. I have no strong preference on what we call the
> field at all - subdomains and namespaces are both used in the draft,
> so happy to change to whatever is clearest.
RFC 8499:
Subdomain: "A domain is a subdomain of another domain if it is
contained within that domain.
I found "namespaces" confusing. I don't think we need to borrow CA/BF
obfuscations.
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