[arabic-vip] Draft Definitions Doc. ver 2.0 05Sep11 ..

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

I haven't looked yet at the attachment, but thanks for it.  I look
forward to reading it.

I can answer a couple questions right away, however.

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Manal Ismail wrote:
> On another note, in the context of definitions, I have the following
> general questions:
> - I'm not sure when to use 'String' vs. 'Label'

For this, I suggest that if something is either a candidate U-label or
(less likely in this case) a candidate A-label, then use the word
"string".  If it is actually a U-label or A-label under IDNA2008 and
registered somewhere, then use "Label" (and it might not be a bad idea
to use U-label or A-label).

> - I'm not sure whether 'Delegated' means the same thing as 'Registered'
> and whether 'Allocated' means the same thing as 'Reserved' 

I don't think so.

A Delegated domain is actually in a zone somewhere: it resolves in the
DNS.  Moreover, it resolves because a parent zone has put (at least
one) NS record into the parent-side zone, and that NS record actually
points to an authoritative DNS server for the name in question.  A
DNAME on the parent side is not Delegated (we should have had a word
for this case, but we didn't add one).  For a U-label, of course, what
this actually means is that the A-label corresponding to that U-label
is in a zone somewhere.  U-labels themselves don't appear in the DNS.

We avoided the term Registered because of the possibility of different
kinds of registration in the registry.  For instance, names that are
reserved for administrative reasons (think of all two-character
A-labels, for instance) could be reserved simply by registration.  But
those are not allocated to anyone.

An allocation is the association of a name with some administratively
responsible party.  In registries, this is usually achieved by the
standard registration practice.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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