looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

Keith Medcalf kmedcalf at dessus.com
Sat Feb 23 22:53:03 UTC 2013


We can call them "rooted" domain names and "pwned" domain names...


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:asullivan at dyn.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 23 February, 2013 15:15
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted
> 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 with
> > 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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