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Re: [DNSOP] Suffix? (Was: I-D Action: draft-hoffman-dns-terminology-01.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 09 March 2015 12:25 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 10:53:36AM -0800,
 Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote 
 a message of 135 lines which said:

> i object to the term "suffix", which sounds like a CP/M "file
> extension", like TXT in "FOOBAR.TXT",

I do not see the relationship. I was suggesting "public suffix"
precisely to avoid the marketing and fuzzy "extension".

> in other words, the right-to-left precedence is deliberately
> obscured by the wrong-think term "suffix".

Not everyone is little-endian, some people think big-endian :-) Do you
think Paul Mockapetris is a close parent of Paul Vixie ? :-)

> i suggest that we invent rather than import.

"Public suffix" is:

* actually in use
* technically correct ("ac.uk is the public suffix of
   www.physics.cam.ac.uk")

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