Re: [Add] Designated Resolver Terminology

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 27/03/2021 12:49, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Eliot Lear 
>> <lear=[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> “Designated Authoritative Resolver” – for designated 
>>> authoritative resolvers
>> 
>> In what sense is a resolver authoritative?
>> 
>>> “Designated Caching Resolver” – for caching resolvers
>> 
>> Which resolvers do not cache?
> 
> Yeah, while I’m fully supportive of the goal of working out 
> harmonized terminology and using it ubiquitously and uniformly,
> Eliot has an excellent point that the way to get there is not to
> recombine terms which have specific meanings in novel and unintuitive
> ways.

+1

And further, I'm not sure terminology is where this WG
faces a challenge, nor that new terms will help solve
what I think really comes down to a challenge due to a
change in who controls what.

S

> Sometimes a neologism is what’s needed, since it can be defined, and 
> nobody assumes that they know what it means, because they know what 
> the words mean, or how it’s used in other contexts.
> 
> -Bill
> 
>