Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35)
Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 30 November 2017 12:24 UTC
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35)
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Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote: > > I think that's correct. But what is not plain to me in my reading, > insistent noises on the list notwithstanding, is whether the second ¶ > in step 3.b of the algorithm in section 4.3.2 of RFC 1034 is still > part of what "a referral" means. The ordinary English meaning, as far > as I can tell, of that 3.b subsection is that everything one does as > part of step 3.b is a referral response. Yes. ¶2 tells you how to construct a referral. > The problem is that "Go to step 4" is part of that last ¶, not a new > ¶, and so what I think is obscure in the algorithm text is whether the > stuff you're copying into the response in step 4. I think you're missing a word or two here :-) but the key part of step 4 wrt referrals is "If there was no delegation from authoritative data", i.e. if we already have a referral, don't overwrite it. The "go to step 4" is a switch from serving authoritative data to gossiping cached data, when the auth data can only provide part of the answer. (There's also more gossiping in step 6.) > It's at least as likely that such a reader will conclude that RFCs 1034 > and 1035 are written with a certain lack of terminological rigour -- > which is perhaps borne out by the effort we apparently need to make to > clarify a term as fundamental as "referral". It seems to me that these RFCs were written with a great deal of care, but their informality makes them appear less precise than they are - you have to read between the lines to work out the implicit meanings of the technical terms. But I don't think the terms are used inconsistently. > I don't think anyone in this discussion disagrees about how things > _ought_ to operate. But in the terminology document, I think we have > tried to preserve the meanings that persist on the Internet. I think it's worth being precriptive, but carefully. That is, telling readers of the terminology RFC that if they are using a term precisely in a document they are writing, they should only use it with the preferred meaning - but some people use it with these different meanings so readers need to be aware of these variations. e.g. for referrals, saying something like "the term referral is sometimes used in a way that also covers implicit referrals and upward referrals (qv) but precise writing should only use referral to mean a downward referral from authoritative data". Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Fitzroy, Sole: Northerly or northeasterly 5 or 6, occasionally 7 in east. Moderate or rough. Showers. Good.
- [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) John Kristoff
- Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] Re: Clarifying referrals (#35) Edward Lewis
- [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarifying… Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Matthew Pounsett
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Edward Lewis
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Matthew Pounsett
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Matthew Pounsett
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Robert Edmonds
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Mark Andrews
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- [DNSOP] another draft (was Re: Clarifying referra… Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Mark Elkins
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Jacques Latour
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Dave Lawrence
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Paul Wouters
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] CDS polling, was Re: [Ext] Re: Clarif… Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Paul Vixie
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
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- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Mark Andrews
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) P Vix
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
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- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Dick Franks
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Dick Franks
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
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- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Tony Finch
- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Andrew Sullivan
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- Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35) Wessels, Duane
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