----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> apple.com is a delegation from .com just as apple is a delegation from > . > > > apple. and www.apple. are *not* -- and the root operators may throw > > their hands up in the air if anyone asks them to have anything in > > their > > zone except glue -- rightly, I think; it's not a degree of > > complexity > > that's compatible with the required stability of the root zone. > > Sir, either you are very confused, or, I am. I am saying that TLDs > behave with the same delegation rules as SLDs, which I believe > to be correct. You are claiming that TLDs are in some way magical > and that the ability to delegate begins at SLDs. I think the fact that > there is data in the COM zone separate from the root indicates that > I am correct. I could be wrong--Cricket Liu I am not--but the point I'm trying to make is that the record "apple." does not *live* inside the zone server for the "apple" TLD; it lives in ".". The people who operate the "apple" zone can apply an A record to "www.apple"... Oh. Wait. I'm sorry: you're right. It's been so long since I climbed that far up the tree, I'd forgotten, the TLDs don't *live* in the root servers. So people operating a cTLD like "apple." would have to run their own analog of gtld-servers.net, to which the zone would be delegated, and such fanciness could happen there. Ok; so *this* bit of opposition was a red herring. :-) Cheers, -- jr '<litella>' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
