On 28 Sep 2016, at 22:50, Robert Edmonds wrote:
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:04:54AM -0400,
Matt Larson <m...@kahlerlarson.org> wrote
a message of 41 lines which said:
I'd venture that more people familiar with the subject matter would
define QNAME as the name in the question section of a DNS message.
(That's my sense of the definition, FWIW.)
What about adding this text to the Terminology section of the draft?
<t>"QNAME": it is defined in <xref target="RFC1034"/> and
in <xref target="RFC1035"/>, section 4.1.2, but, because <xref
target="RFC2308"/> provides a different definition, we repeat the
original one here: the QNAME is the owner name of the record in
the
Question section.</t>
The QNAME is a domain name, but is it an owner name? There is no owned
record data in the question section (and the entries in the question
section are not RRs).
Oddly, "owner name" is correct here. From RFC 1035, Section 3.2.1 which
describes the format of resource records:
All RRs have the same top level format shown below:
1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
| |
/ /
/ NAME /
| |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
| TYPE |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
. . .
where:
NAME an owner name, i.e., the name of the node to which this
resource record pertains.
. . .
And I think that Stephane's new definition text is a good addition to
the draft.
--Paul Hoffman
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