Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-22 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 21 2017, Paul Vixie wrote: you guys are killing me with this thread.

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Paul Vixie
you guys are killing me with this thread.

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Richard Gibson
On 12/21/2017 02:17 PM, Niall O'Reilly wrote: On 21 Dec 2017, at 16:06, Richard Gibson wrote: first, because it's consistent with the rest of the document in its current form (for example, the very next sentence after my quoted text describes how a fully qualified domain name "begins at the co

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 21 Dec 2017, at 16:06, Richard Gibson wrote: > Two reasons why I presume edge direction to be away from the root: > first, because it's consistent with the rest of the document in its current > form (for example, the very next sentence after my quoted text describes how > a fully qualified d

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 18 Dec 2017, at 14:11, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> IN-BAILIWICK > > ... > >> Also, on behalf on non-native speakers, a short explanation of the >> origin of the term would perhaps be nice. > > I like the Wiktionary (and it can be copied freely into a RFC): I like this suggestion. As a nativ

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Richard Gibson
On 12/21/2017 07:31 AM, Niall O'Reilly wrote: On 19 Dec 2017, at 7:09, Richard Gibson wrote: 1. "Domain name" is defined as «an ordered list of one or more labels… identifying a portion along one edge of a directed acyclic graph» (presumably starting at the root). I'm not sure why

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 19 Dec 2017, at 7:09, Richard Gibson wrote: > 1\. "Domain name" is defined as «an ordered list of one or more labels… > identifying a portion along one edge of a directed acyclic graph» (presumably > starting at the root). I'm not sure why one would presume to start there. As I read the fol

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-18 Thread Richard Gibson
On 12/18/2017 10:20 PM, Martin Hoffmann wrote: That said, there seems to be a mistake in the text for the common display format: | so, in both English and C the first label in the ordered list is | right-most Previously this list was defined as being "ordered ordered by decreasing distance from

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-18 Thread Martin Hoffmann
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:36:00PM +0100, > Martin Hoffmann wrote > a message of 297 lines which said: > > > GLOBAL DNS -- FORMAT OF NAMES > > > > | Names in the common display format are normally written such that > > the | directionality of the writing system pr

Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-12-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:36:00PM +0100, Martin Hoffmann wrote a message of 297 lines which said: > GLOBAL DNS -- FORMAT OF NAMES > > | Names in the common display format are normally written such that the > | directionality of the writing system presents labels by decreasing > | distance fr

[DNSOP] Review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08

2017-11-30 Thread Martin Hoffmann
Hi, the following is a review of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-08. It represents a reading of the document front-to-back as a sort of whirlwind introduction to the depths of DNS and assumes that such a reading is intended and there is a narrative. Even if that wasn’t the original intention, the