Re: IDN administrative bundling

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:24:24PM +0000, Gould, James wrote:

> objects.  The concept of bundling could apply to domain names in a single
> TLD, domain names across TLD's, and objects of different kinds within or
> across TLD's.  

I don't care what we call them, but I do not see how anyone can claim
that "bundling" in the same sense can cross domain (I'm almost tempted
to say "zone") boundaries and also be the narrow meaning often
intended by the word.

Bundling(n) [n for narrow] is a case where, within the same domain,
two subordinate labels are somehow treated as basically linked in some
way.  This is the meaning of bundling (and one of the meanings of
"variant") that has most traditionally been seen in the RFCs. The
links may be purely administrative, by which we mean that the
administrative details of the name are required to be the same; or
they may be technically tighter, such as a requirement for mirroring
(either via aliasing or administrative fiat of parallel delegation).
An example of this case is example.com and éxample.com: these are both
names in the same domain (and zone).

Bundling(w) [w for wide], which I would prefer to call "domain
linking" or something like that, is where two names in different parts
of the DNS namespace are somehow treated in ways that link them
together.  As above, these links may be stronger or weaker, but the
key is that they be in different domains.  If example.com and
example.net are somehow linked together, for instance, it would be a
case of this.

best,

A

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