On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:36:54PM +0000, Wiley, Glen <gwi...@verisign.com> wrote a message of 144 lines which said:
> 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. I don't think it is a good example. After all, the sentence is only true if there is a zone cut between com and example but not between example and a. (Which is the case today for example.com but not guaranteed for the future.) If you want a better example: For example if example.com is delegated to the name server ns.example.com, then ns.example.com is in-bailiwick. [Personal note: this definition of in-bailiwick does not seem to me very common. The original one, and the most common by far, is the one in b)] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop