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Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology needs to define "label"?

manning <bmanning@karoshi.com> Sun, 03 May 2015 00:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology needs to define "label"?
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this is what I think of when I look at the DNS protocol.   Well done Lyman!

manning

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On 30April2015Thursday, at 8:14, Lyman Chapin <lyman@interisle.net> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 29, 2015, at 6:39 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 29, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm suggesting a new definition in Sec. 2, as follows: 
>>> 
>>> "Label -- The portion of a domain name at each node in the tree making up a fully-qualified domain name" 
>> 
>> Works for me. What do others think?
> 
> I'm uncomfortable with both "portion" and "making up." Labels are the "atoms" from which FQDN compounds are constructed, and "portion" isn't precise enough to capture that; and I don't think that "making up" will translate well beyond English. How about:
> 
> "Label - The identifier of an individual node in the sequence of nodes that comprise a fully-qualified domain name."
> 
> - Lyman
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