Re: common aliases document

Russ Wright <Wright@lbl.gov> Thu, 02 May 1996 16:39 UTC

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Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 09:31:59 -0700
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From: Russ Wright <Wright@lbl.gov>
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At 11:00 AM  -0500 5/2/96, Ryan Moats wrote:
>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.
>

I think if we just remove the "alias for z39-50" comment, that will address
your first concern.  As for protocols that share the same port- what a
mess.  Perhaps we should add some wording in section 4 about port sharing
(just to state that some services do share the same port).

Russ