Re: multi-level naming

[Martin J. Dürst <[e-mail]>]

Hello John,

On 2017/03/17 09:51, John C Klensin wrote:

> It has been long enough that I had forgotten that we actually
> had a WG (at least the tracker says we did) and have no memory
> of what is in a draft I apparently wrote, but...
>
> Circumstances have obviously changed since the WG was shut down
> (end of 2003 according to the tracker)

The fact that the charter in the tracker still starts with "This BOF 
will" seems to be a strong indication that this was never actually a WG. 
Other indications in the tracker don't contradict that.

I remember even less of this than John, so I could be wrong.

Regards,   Martin.

> and I hope we have
> learned some things, but, to lower the risk of reinventing the
> wheel, see
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/irnss/about/
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-klensin-dns-search/
>
> The date on the last version of the latter seems to be after the
> WG was abandoned, so it might constitute a summary of how far
> the WG's thinking got.  Or not... again, my memory of that
> effort is shot.  Glancing at it now, it at least contains a list
> of topics to be addressed.
>
> best,
>    john