The draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology draft will be helpful in normalizing
language in documentation and
for folks new to the industry, I like where it is heading. I¹d like to
recommend adding a few sentences to in the paragraphs on bailiwick. I
think the original text is pretty close but the additions below would make
it more helpful to a less familiar reader as bailiwick is particularly
confusing to some folks (as was noted in earlier exchanges on this list).
The current text reads:
In-bailiwick:
(a) An adjective to describe a name server whose name is either
subordinate to or (rarely) the same as the zone origin. In-
bailiwick name servers require glue in their parent zone.
(b) Data for which the server is either authoritative, or else
authoritative for an ancestor of the owner name. This sense of
the term normally is used when discussing the relevancy of glue
records in a response. For example, the server for the parent
zone example.com might reply with glue records for
ns.child.example.com. Because the child.example.com zone is a
descendant of the example.com zone, the glue records are in-
bailiwick.
Out-of-bailiwick: The antonym of in-bailiwick.
Id like to suggest something like this:
(a) An adjective to describe a name server whose name is either
subordinate to or (rarely) the same as the zone origin. In-
bailiwick name servers require glue in their parent zone. For
example if the com. name server refers a query for a.example.com
to ns.example.com the resolver would consider ns.example.com
in-bailiwick.
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Glen Wiley
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