The document candidly categorizes itself, in Section 1, as “a pedantic network protocol description”. As such, I think it might be appropriate for it to describe DNS names as appearing in the only form that is unambiguous and implementation-agnostic, i.e. dot-terminated FQDN.
Having said that, even RFC 1034 admits that the non-dot-terminated form “is often one where the trailing dot has been omitted to save typing”, so if the document wants to give a nod to how DNS names are typically represented in practice, that would also be fine, albeit slightly less pedantic. - Kevin From: DNSOP <dnsop-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Bob Harold Sent: Monday, April 09, 2018 4:32 PM To: Mukund Sivaraman <m...@mukund.org> Cc: IETF DNSOP WG <dnsop@ietf.org> Subject: Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash-01.txt On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Mukund Sivaraman <m...@mukund.org<mailto:m...@mukund.org>> wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:20:02AM -0700, internet-dra...@ietf.org<mailto:internet-dra...@ietf.org> wrote: > > A new version of I-D, draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash-01.txt > has been successfully submitted by Mukund Sivaraman and posted to the > IETF repository. > > Name: draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash > Revision: 01 > Title: DNS squash > Document date: 2018-04-01 > Group: Individual Submission > Pages: 6 > URL: > https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash-01.txt > Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash/ > Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash-01 > Htmlized: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash > Diff: > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-muks-dnsop-dns-squash-01 > > Abstract: > This document attempts to specify current DNS protocol in squashed > form in a single document. You can compare what's in section 3 (Data structure) to what's in RFC 1034 section 3.1. (Name space specifications and terminology). I'll post revisions weekly. Reviews and participation (preferrably first in the form of discussion to prepare a list of things to do) are welcome. https://github.com/muks/dnssquash/ Mukund 3. Data Structure ... A DNS name is printed as a concatenation left to right of the individual labels on the path from the node to the root, each label trailing with an ASCII period '.' character. Thus a complete printed DNS name ends with a period character. Not exactly. There is no period after the zero-length root zone. The last period is actually between the tld and the root zone. So 'there is a period between each zone' not 'after each zone' even though it looks like a trailing dot. -- Bob Harold
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