On Apr 30, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Lyman Chapin <ly...@interisle.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Apr 29, 2015, at 6:39 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 29, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Suzanne Woolf <suzworldw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm suggesting a new definition in Sec. 2, as follows: 
>>> 
>>> "Label -- The portion of a domain name at each node in the tree making up a 
>>> fully-qualified domain name" 
>> 
>> Works for me. What do others think?
> 
> I'm uncomfortable with both "portion" and "making up." Labels are the "atoms" 
> from which FQDN compounds are constructed, and "portion" isn't precise enough 
> to capture that; and I don't think that "making up" will translate well 
> beyond English. How about:
> 
> "Label - The identifier of an individual node in the sequence of nodes that 
> comprise a fully-qualified domain name."

This looks even better to me. Other opinions welcome.

--Paul Hoffman
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