looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

[marka at isc.org (Mark Andrews)]

For what it is worth I argued for removal of support for partially
qualified domain names when looking at resolving the issues in RFC
1535.  "ndots" was the compromise.

I also argued for searches stopping on nodata responses.

I felt and continue to feel both of these are security issues.  If
RFC 1535 came up today I believe that different decisions may have
been made but give the political climate at the time that was the
best I could get.

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Mark Andrews, ISC
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