Re: [DNSOP] [[e-mail]: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:29:44AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> There is no such thing as DNS name. We talk about domain names here,
> domain names exist outside of the DNS (LDAP, mDNS and other resolution
> protocols).

MDNS names are _not_ domain names, sorry.  They look like domain
names, admittedly, but they're names in a different protocol.  The
trick of mDNS is to make a protocol that looks almost exactly like DNS
to a user but that works differently under the hood.  That's a trick,
however, and it depends on a separate name space.  The elephant in
dnssd WG's room -- and the very careful scoping of dnssd's charter --
is exactly this issue; it's why internationalization in the DNS using
IDNA and internationalization in mDNS is not interoperable.

Best,

A

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