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Re: draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-12.txt

2010-12-14 21:10:19
On 30 Nov 2010, at 9:13 AM, Donald Eastlake wrote:

I would suggest that the first word of Section 20, currently "The", should be replaced by "A major" or "One of the" or the like.

Agreed. The document now says:

   Multicast DNS shares, as much as possible, the familiar APIs, naming
   syntax, resource record types, etc., of Unicast DNS.

For consistency with RFC 5395, all occurrences of "pseudo-RR" should be replace with "meta-RR"

dictionary.reference.com says:

meta

A prefix meaning one level of description higher. If X is some concept then meta-X is data about, or processes operating on, X. For example, a metasyntax is syntax for specifying syntax, metalanguage is a language used to discuss language, meta-data is data about data, and meta-reasoning is reasoning about reasoning.

Is that what you mean? A "meta resource record" is a "resource record about resource records".

The term "pseudo-RR" means: “false”, “pretended” or “unreal”.

In this context the text is referring to any apparent RR in the packet that's not really an RR, not solely to RRs that describe other RRs.

it would not hurt to add a reference to RFC 5395

Where would you like this reference to appear?

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire(_at_)apple(_dot_)com>
* Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Inc.
* www.stuartcheshire.org

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