Re: [homenet] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC8375 (6378)

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 02/01/2021 15:15, Kulvinder wrote:
> My apologies, you are correct. I’ve now seen RFC 1034 which details the terminator.

Grand so. I'll ask Eric V. to hit the reject button on this
when he gets back to work after the holidays.

Thanks all,
S.

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> 
> Kulvinder Matharu
> 
> *From: *Ted Lemon <mailto:[e-mail]>
> *Sent: *02 January 2021 15:02
> *To: *Stephen Farrell <mailto:[e-mail]>
> *Cc: *[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>; Erik Kline
> <mailto:[e-mail]>; Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <mailto:[e-mail]>;
> STARK, BARBARA H <mailto:[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>; [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
> *Subject: *Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC8375 (6378)
> 
> It’s nonsense. We put the dots on the end on purpose—it’s not an FQDN otherwise. :/
> 
>   > On Jan 2, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>   >
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>   >
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>   > Any opinions on this from authors/list? My take would be that
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>   > this can be rejected as inclusion of full stops within quotes
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>   > is stylistically correct and that there's no technical issue
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>   > with including the root's dot in a DNS name. But maybe some
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>   > other convention has been followed for DNS RFCs in the past?
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>   >
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>   > Cheers,
> 
>   > S.
> 
>   >
> 
>   > On 02/01/2021 08:27, RFC Errata System wrote:
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>   >> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8375,
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>   >> "Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'".
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>   >> --------------------------------------
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>   >> You may review the report below and at:
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>   >> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6378
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>   >> --------------------------------------
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>   >> Type: Editorial
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>   >> Reported by: Kulvinder Matharu <[e-mail]>
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>   >> Section: GLOBAL
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>   >> Original Text
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>   >> -------------
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>   >> "home.arpa."
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>   >> Corrected Text
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>   >> --------------
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>   >> "home.arpa"
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>   >> Notes
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>   >> -----
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>   >> The domain "home.arpa." is used throughout the document. The domain should,
> instead, be "home.arpa".
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>   >> Instructions:
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>   >> -------------
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>   >> This erratum is currently posted as "Reported". If necessary, please
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>   >> use "Reply All" to discuss whether it should be verified or
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>   >> rejected. When a decision is reached, the verifying party
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>   >> can log in to change the status and edit the report, if necessary.
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>   >> --------------------------------------
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>   >> RFC8375 (draft-ietf-homenet-dot-14)
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>   >> --------------------------------------
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>   >> Title               : Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
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>   >> Publication Date    : May 2018
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>   >> Author(s)           : P. Pfister, T. Lemon
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>   >> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
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>   >> Source              : Home Networking
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>   >> Area                : Internet
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>   >> Stream              : IETF
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>   >> Verifying Party     : IESG
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