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RE: [wg-review] [DNDEF] short quizz
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Miles, Thank you. Your description of technical aspects is
clear and very helpful. However, any internet domain name seems to
comprise three distinct elements. These are:-
1) Creative
Component - the concept behind the language that makes up the
written title that gives rise to intellectual property rights owned by one or
more person or persons and or entity(ies). These may or may not be subject to a
registered trademark. 2) Technical Component - the physical
means by which the domain name resolves into a URL on the internet (as per your
description) 3) Publishing Component - the act of exploiting
the domain name by distributing creative content in the public domain using the
internet.
I'm sure you can do better for the one sentence summary
description under item 2. Thanks, Joanna
Miles B. Whitener
wrote:- The kind of answers given below might not be very helpful. An
Internet "domain" only has meaning in the context of DNS "zones". You
either have to understand this or trust somebody that does understand
it. DNS is the Domain Name System of the currently existing public
IP Internet. Unlike IP addresses, which are to a large extent
physically distributed all the way down to end user networks, DNS names
are a weak concept and can change easily. DNS "zones" are
"delegated". The "root" zone (embodied on a few DNS server machines)
has delegated COM, NET, ORG, EDU, MIL, INT, ARPA, and all other "top level
domains" (TLDs) to various other server machines. The "root" servers
are "authoritative" only by convention and agreement. Someplace
upstream of you, a DNS server machine operator has a file with the IP
addresses of the root servers. If your operator changes those, then you have
a totally different worldview. Everything could change. COM might
not exist any more ... When you register a COM subdomain, you or your
network operator has been "delegated" a zone. In this case it's called
a second-level domain. So if you have bubba.com, bubba is both
a zone and a domain. It also happens to be a SUBdomain of COM. If
you want to try to sell SUBdomains under bubba.com, you can try. Those
also will be zones or domains. If somebody can convince you to do this,
you can DELEGATE little.bubba.com to somebody. They then completely
control the "little" SUBdomain under the "bubba" subdomain under COM.
All are zones, all are domains. They are all SUBdomains of
something. COM is a subdomain of "root".
Internet "domains" only
have existence and meaning in the context of the DNS, which is only one of
MANY services that run on the public IP Internet.
There's absolutely
NO DOUBT as to what an Internet domain name is right now ...
If I
wanted to, I could create some new naming service and advertise it. I
could take registrations for names. I could even call them
domains. But that would not make them
Internet "domains".
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy
Harris" <sandy@storm.ca> To: "Jefsey Morfin"
<jefsey@wanadoo.fr> Cc: <wg-review@dnso.org> Sent: Tuesday,
February 06, 2001 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [wg-review] [DNDEF] short
quizz
> Jefsey Morfin wrote: > > > > Just a
test. > > Kent (since I use Kent's post) has kent@songbird.com as
a mail name. > > I asked Sandy who did not respond. > >
I don't recall seeing that. > > > What is Kent's Domain
Name? > > No theory asked, just please repond on an example. >
> > > Is it: > > - is it "songbird" > > No.
That's a component, not a full name. > "com" is also a component, but
isn't his. > > > - is it "songbird.com" > >
Yes. > > > Now what is IPC domain name under: http://ipc.songbird.com
? > > - "ipc" > > No. > > > -
"ipc.songbird.com" > > Yes. > > > -
"ipc.songbird" > > No. > > > -
"songbird.com" > > No. That's Kent's, not IPC's. > >
> Now same questions with the alias http://ipc.dnso.org rerouted > > to the actual IPC
site. > > - "ipc" > > No. > > > -
"ipc.dnso.org" > Yes. > > > - "ipc.dnso" >
No. > > > - "dnso.org" > No. Not IPC's. > >
> - "ipc.songbird.com" > Yes. > > > -
"songbird.com" > No. Not IPC's. > > >
Jefsey > > But why on Earth are you asking? I'd have thought the
answers were so obvious > as to not be worth discussing. >
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