Re: [Add] Designated Resolver Terminology

[Jim Mozley <[e-mail]>]

Hi Stephen, ADD,

On 27/03/2021, 18:36, "Add" <[e-mail]> wrote:


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.

This came about when I was working on a presentation to update colleagues, where I was including some information about designated authoritative resolvers (from the admittedly expired draft) and designated caching resolvers.  It helped to disambiguate to refer to them as such.

I realise naming does sometimes create a lot of debate, the motivation here is purely practical.

Jim