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

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>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/>

It's definitely used.  We're spinning up the DBOUND WG to figure out what it actually means
and if there's any way to describe it within the DNS.

The current implementation of public suffixes is a text file one can download from
https://publicsuffix.org/

We all agree that's awful, but there's no agreement about what would be less awful.

I also agree with Vixie that the name is unfortunate, but it's well
established and if we invented some other name, nobody would know what
we were talking about.