Re: common aliases document

Ryan Moats <jayhawk@ds.internic.net> Thu, 02 May 1996 16:09 UTC

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From: Ryan Moats <jayhawk@ds.internic.net>
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Subject: Re: common aliases document
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Russ Wright wrote:
> 
> At 08:22 AM  -0500 5/2/96, Ryan Moats wrote:
> >Martin Hamilton wrote:
> >>
> >> IDS folk - here's a new draft of that DNS aliases document.  The
> >> emphasis has changed to direct people first at the IANA assigned
> >> numbers stuff, and then at special cases.
> >>
> >> USWG and namedroppers folk - here's a little something we've been
> >> cooking up.  Feedback sought!
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >
> >
> >Martin-
> >
> >A thought from reading through:
> >
> >Under the special cases wais != z39.50. Thus, there should be two
> >separate entries, wais AND z39.50.
> 
> Valid point, however please keep in mind that we aren't trying to list all
> the services out there. The idea is that you use the IANA-registered name
> if appropriate or one specified in the protocol's RFC.
> 
> Russ

True.  I found the mention of this fact when re-reading the
draft.  It might allievate confusion if that comment were either
re-stated in the special cases section or some discussion is added for
the situation where things seem to want to share the same port number.

Ryan