[161052] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Sat Feb 23 17:53:16 2013
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:53:03 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20130223221506.GB4031@dyn.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "'North American Network Operators' Group'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We can call them "rooted" domain names and "pwned" domain names...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:asullivan@dyn.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 23 February, 2013 15:15
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-r=
ooted
> FQDNs
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> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:26:58PM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> >
> > No trailing dot allowed; "each domain label starting and ending wit=
h
> > an alphanumerical character";
>
> Note, however, that the URI specification actually contemplates the
> possibility of the host part being a dom-spec, and the names in that
> are able to be terminated with a dot. Or at least that's how I read
> it when I looked it up the other day.
>
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