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Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs
From: Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:10:55 -0800
On 02/25/2013 09:49 AM, Brian Reichert wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:18:00PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:If I understood Brian correctly, his problem is that people/programs are trying to retrieve things from, eg: https://my.host.name./this/is/a/path and the SSL library fails the certificate match if the cert doesn't contain the absolute domain name as an altName -- because *the browser* (or whatever) does not normalize before calling the library.I'd argue that if you have an absolute domain name, then that _is_ the 'normalized' form of the domain name; it's an unambigious representation of the domain name. (Here, I'm treating the string as a serialized data structure.) Choosing to remove the notion of "this is rooted", and then asking any (all?) other layers to handle the introduced ambiguity sounds like setting yourself up for the issues that RFC 1535 was drawing attention to.
Brian,This may be a silly question, but what's your goal here? Your OP was about terminology, but the thread has gone down several different off-topic ratholes.
Doug
Current thread:
- Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot?, (continued)
- Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot? Brian Reichert (Feb 25)
- Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot? Jay Ashworth (Feb 25)
- Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot? Jimmy Hess (Feb 25)
- Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot? Jay Ashworth (Feb 25)
- Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot? Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 26)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Owen DeLong (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs David Miller (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Owen DeLong (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Brian Reichert (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Doug Barton (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Brian Reichert (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 25)
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- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Brian Reichert (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Rich Kulawiec (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Mark Andrews (Feb 23)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)