Re: [dnsext] s/ZS/NI/

["Roy Arends" <roy@nominet.org.uk>]

Jim Reid wrote on 11/25/2008 06:14:46 PM:

> Someone suggested off-list that Node Information and NI might be more 
> appropriate than the names which were proposed in the template I 
> submitted last week and the related I-D. I agree. So, in the hope that 
> this puts an end to the unnecessary focus on "zone" that has erupted 
> -- and I apologise for needlessly starting --- can we please now use 
> this new name and mnemonic? Please don't post any more comments about 
> zone semantics in relation to this template or its old name/mnemonic. 
> They're not relevant and not worthy of further discussion.
> 
> Perhaps this will mean the "WG kick here" sign that I didn't mean to 
> put on my backside can now be removed. 

NI as an mnemonic collides with NI as label for the Nicaraguan TLD NI. 
Just ask the folks at MX how often this leads to confusion. Some software 
that relies on presentation format can get confused as well.

Maybe expand it to NINFO?

Roy Arends
Sr. Researcher
Nominet UK

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