Re: IDN administrative bundling

You forget where the zone name also has variant names delegated from its parent zone.

On 31/03/2012, at 10:57 AM, "Andrew Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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