Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-12.txt

[Bob Harold <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:11 PM <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations WG of the
> IETF.
>
>         Title           : DNS Scoped Data Through "Underscore" Naming of
> Attribute Leaves
>         Author          : Dave Crocker
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-12.txt
>         Pages           : 13
>         Date            : 2018-07-21
>
> Abstract:
>    Formally, any DNS resource record may occur under any domain name.
>    However some services have defined an operational convention, which
>    applies to DNS leaf nodes that are under a DNS branch having one or
>    more reserved node names, each beginning with an _underscore.  The
>    underscored naming construct defines a semantic scope for DNS record
>    types that are associated with the parent domain, above the
>    underscored branch.  This specification explores the nature of this
>    DNS usage and defines the "DNS Global Underscore Scoped Entry
>    Registry" with IANA.  The purpose of the Underscore registry is to
>    avoid collisions resulting from the use of the same underscore-based
>    name, for different services.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf/
>
> There are also htmlized versions available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-12
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-12
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-12
>

 The table on page 6 includes:

"._protoB._service2"


Why the dot at the beginning?  None of the other lines have that.


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Bob Harold