Re: [mif] [DNSOP] [dnsext] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

In message <CAH1iCiqsN-R87VK3vKityPsY+NXA=0DRASYf_vmBSy8gvYwHdQ@mail.gmail.com>
, Brian Dickson writes:
> I think we can skirt this rat-hole if we separate the two following
> distinct cases:
> 
> Case A: "foo"
> Case B: "foo." (with terminating "dot").
> 
> Case B meets the technical requirements of a Fully Qualified Domain
> Name, structurally speaking.
> Case A does not.
>
> Case A is a "bare name", case B is not.
> 
> If we stick to the notions of FQDN versus anything else, we can avoid
> entering the rat-hole, IMHO.
> 
> (I.e., We don't need to get into any issues over the number of labels
> in an FQDN; an FQDN does not require treatment, special or otherwise;
> etc., etc.,)

A domain style hostname have periods *seperating* labels.  RFC 952.

> Brian Dickson
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> w=
> rote:
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:19 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> >
> >> On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
> >>> It might that IETF should consider "bare names" out of its scope, excep=
> t perhaps to say that they're not DNS names, they don't have to necessarily=
>  be mappable to DNS names, and that their use and behavior is host and appl=
> ication-dependent.
> >>
> >> Can we please not redefine what a "DNS name" is to meet a particular age=
> nda?
> >
> > I wasn't trying to do so.
> >
> >> Isn't it sufficient to say a 'bare name' does not conform to a hostname =
> as defined in RFC 952 and modified by RFCs 1122?
> >
> > Probably. =A0I'm just suggesting that trying to nail down the behavior of=
>  such names is probably a rathole as well as likely to cause significant di=
> sruption.
> >
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