On Oct 15 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 04:01:37PM +0200, Alfred Hönes wrote:Background information usage in on selected 'important' DNS RFCs: o "RRset" is used in RFCs 4033, 4034, 4035, and 4509; o "RRSet" appears in RFCs 2181 and 5155. o current DNS related I-Ds also vary; there are even drafts using both. Any opinions?From the evidence, there are plenty of opinions! But since 2181 defines RRSet and does not define RRset, I claim that the latter term is undefined and that the former term is the only correct spelling of the notion.
But RFC 2136 defines RRset (and uses it heavily) and that takes precedence over RFC 2181 by a whole 3 months in publication date! :-)There are some earlier (rather informal) references. The earliest I found in a casual search was in RFC 1996, and it uses "RRset".
I admit to a strong personal bias in favour of "RRset".
I'll note (for those to whom these things are meaningful) that I also believe the Gowers edition of Fowler to be the One True version and that anything else is a needless innovation. One might infer that I am sort of curmudgeonly on this topic.
You want to start a curmudgeoness contest *here*? That's extremely ... brave of you. -- Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QH, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.