Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-hoffman-dns-terminology-00.txt

Shumon Huque <shuque@gmail.com> Tue, 24 February 2015 17:07 UTC

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>     Or should A in AXFR be something else, like "Absolute", or "All" or
>     "All-Data" which might more correctly differentiate it from
"Incremental".
>
>
> Seriously - in operations land, "what you call something" isn’t as
important as the term’s definition being clear and common.
>

I agree, Ed.

I was mostly joking with that suggestion - I thought that was clear
from my earlier paragraph that you didn't quote where I said I found
it a bit pointless to retrofit new abbreviation expansions. The
definition is what it is!

Shumon Huque