I agree that the abstract is unclear. This makes no sense to me: domain names represent either nodes in the tree below which registrations occur, or nodes where registrations have occurred; it does not permit a domain name to have both of these properties simultaneously.
I don't understand the distinction that it's trying to make between the two possibilities. I also don't see the antecedent to "these domains" in the final sentence of that paragraph. Beyond that: > I'm at a loss to understand what's confusing. I'm not convinced that > "registrations" in the > context of domain names is unclear to a reader familiar with this space. I am absolutely convinced that it is. Think of people in M3AAWG, for whom this is very relevant. Many of them don't know much about registries, registrars, and such, and in general, the average reader won't understand the difference, from a "registration" standpoint, between facebook.com (which is registered) and "www.facebook.com" (which is not). To the average reader, "facebook.com" is registered under com, and "www.facebook.com" is registered under facebook. And the ones who don't think that will likely not understand why we can't just talk about second-level domains and be done with it. All that needs to be explained in the Introduction, not the Abstract. But the Abstract has to explain enough for a reader to understand why she might or might not be interested in getting the document and reading it. So it's going to be tough to word it carefully and to keep it concise. But we have to. Stressing a point: We very clearly do NOT want to explain this stuff in the Abstract. In fact, we don't have to explain much at all in the Abstract. What we have to do is make sure that the Abstract doesn't say stuff that's *wrong* or confusing. So let's try to find some fifth-grade language that can suffice, and then make sure the Introduction has the right words to make it clear to people who know how to do email, but who don't already understand the issues involved here. Barry _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
