On 3/13/17 10:59, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations of the IETF.
Title : DNS Terminology
Authors : Paul Hoffman
Andrew Sullivan
Kazunori Fujiwara
Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-05.txt
Pages : 35
Date : 2017-03-13
Abstract:
The DNS is defined in literally dozens of different RFCs. The
terminology used by implementers and developers of DNS protocols, and
by operators of DNS systems, has sometimes changed in the decades
since the DNS was first defined. This document gives current
definitions for many of the terms used in the DNS in a single
document.
This document will be the successor to RFC 7719.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis/
There's also a htmlized version available at:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-05
A diff from the previous version is available at:
https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis-05
If a domain name is made up of labels, and labels are made up of octets,
then can there be non-digital representations of domain names? For
example, if I spray paint 'www.example' on the side of a bus, is it not
a domain name because it is made up of paint instead of octets?
I don't see anything in this document restricting the terms to 'on the
wire' definitions. So I assume that the scope of 'domain name' includes
non-digital instantiations. Perhaps what's needed isn't so much a new
definition for label, but clarification on the scope of these terms and
their definitions.
Thanks,
Andrew
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