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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 06 March 2015 13:30 UTC

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Subject: [DNSOP] Suffix? (Was: I-D Action: draft-hoffman-dns-terminology-01.txt
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 02:10:50PM -0800,
 internet-drafts@ietf.org <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

>         Title           : DNS Terminology

What about adding a definition of "public suffix"? I suggest the text
from
<https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/InternetDomainNameExplained>:

> Public suffix: A domain under which people can register subdomains,
> and on which cookies should not be set. [with good examples
> afterwards]

This terme seems actually used, unlike the strange FLD
<http://domainnamewire.com/2015/02/18/domain-definitions-fld-for-free-level-domain/>