This is not a complete review of the latest revision.. I'm hoping to get to that in a day or two. But I've got a question about whether something should be added to the document..
A question came up in conversation recently about the use of the verb "to publish" in reference to managing DNS data. It quickly became clear that there may be a common overloading of terms, where the same word means different things to different people. I wasn't sure this fell into the scope of the terminology document, but I just checked and it does use "publish" in reference to DNS data, so perhaps we should come up with a definition for that. To me, publishing DNS data has always meant the generation of the zone and the data it contains, as distinct from distributing the zone (to name servers, possibly though zone transfer) and serving the zone (making it available to be queried on a name server). To the person I was speaking to, "publishing" meant putting that data on Internet-facing name servers that would answer queries about it. However, using such a broad definition of "publishing" seems, to me, to introduce confusion in that it removes a clear distinction between the steps of generating data, distributing those data, and then making them available to be queried. To draw a comparison, one might look to the steps of writing, publishing, distributing, and selling a book (although I'm not sure how the first two would map differently to publishing DNS data.. they seem like the same step to me in this context).
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