Re: [weirds] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-blanchet-weirds-bootstrap-ianaregistries-01.txt

[Arturo Servin <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Ernie Dainow <[e-mail]> wrote:
> "the longest match" as used in several places is not fully descriptive, and
> different.
>
> Section 2. Domain Name RDAP Registry
>     domain names are found by doing the longest match
> This is a string search of the longest match starting from the end of the
> target name and the end of each value in the Domain column.
>
> 3.1.  IPv4 Address Space RDAP Registry
>     IPv4 address is found by doing a longest match of the target address
> with the values of the Prefix column
> The example query for "192.0.2.0/24" matches the "192/8" entry does not
> follow. There is no string search that will return this match. This search
> requires some semantics, which should be explained.
>
> 3.2.  IPv6 Address Space RDAP Registry
> same issue as 3.1

For v4 and v6 is the longest match is the more specific prefix, just
like in routing. So it is not a search string as mentioned in Section
2. I think it would be good to clarify the differences.


/as