Re: Text (Re: Proposed updates for domain-based drafts)

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:39:10PM +0100, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >+   For the purposes of domain-based names a "domain" is defined by the
> >+   applications that use domain-based names.  An application protocol
> >+   might use a simple DNS domainname, such as "example.com" for naming,
> >+   while another it might use the DNS domainname of the SRV RRs it
> >+   queries (e.g., "_tcp._foo.example.com"), and yet another may use
> >+   something that does not resemble a DNS domainname.  Application
> >+   protocol specifications that provide for use of domain-based service
> >+   names MUST define the domain-portion of their domain-based names.
> > 
> >
> I like the suggested changes, except for the last sentence quoted above. 
> Here you are trying to put requirements on application protocols, which 
> is probably Ok. But you are effectively declaring all existing 
> application layer protocols non compliant with this MUST. Was this the 
> intent?

Not at all -- existing apps don't know how to use domain-based names, so
they will require updating anyways.  This is a requirement only for
applications that wish to support the use of domain-based names.

Nico
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