In message <CAH1iCiqsN-R87VK3vKityPsY+NXA=0drasyf_vmbsy8gvyw...@mail.gmail.com> , Brian Dickson writes: > I think we can skirt this rat-hole if we separate the two following > distinct cases: > > Case A: "foo" > Case B: "foo." (with terminating "dot"). > > Case B meets the technical requirements of a Fully Qualified Domain > Name, structurally speaking. > Case A does not. > > Case A is a "bare name", case B is not. > > If we stick to the notions of FQDN versus anything else, we can avoid > entering the rat-hole, IMHO. > > (I.e., We don't need to get into any issues over the number of labels > in an FQDN; an FQDN does not require treatment, special or otherwise; > etc., etc.,)
A domain style hostname have periods *seperating* labels. RFC 952. > Brian Dickson > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Keith Moore <mo...@network-heretics.com> w= > rote: > > > > On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:19 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > > >> On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > >>> It might that IETF should consider "bare names" out of its scope, excep= > t perhaps to say that they're not DNS names, they don't have to necessarily= > be mappable to DNS names, and that their use and behavior is host and appl= > ication-dependent. > >> > >> Can we please not redefine what a "DNS name" is to meet a particular age= > nda? > > > > I wasn't trying to do so. > > > >> Isn't it sufficient to say a 'bare name' does not conform to a hostname = > as defined in RFC 952 and modified by RFCs 1122? > > > > Probably. =A0I'm just suggesting that trying to nail down the behavior of= > such names is probably a rathole as well as likely to cause significant di= > sruption. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dnsext mailing list > > dns...@ietf.org > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsext > > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
