commit 45bc34347e99210e9ff302b866dd0b7ea8149376
parent 495b02b508e08477eb8e2aaa06fdbd0ea92ecfee
Author: Martin Schanzenbach <mschanzenbach@posteo.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 10:56:15 +0200
call it zTLD
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/draft-schanzen-gns.xml b/draft-schanzen-gns.xml
@@ -184,12 +184,10 @@
is a HDKD function which blinds a public zone key "zk" of the
respective type.
</dd>
- <dt>NameSuffix(ztype, zk) -> zkl</dt>
+ <dt>zTLD</dt>
<dd>
- is a function which defines a mapping from zone public key to
- a string "zkl" of the respective type.
- It is a string which encodes the "ztype" as well as the zone
- key "zk" into one or more labels. The "zkl" is used as a
+ is a string which encodes the "ztype" as well as the zone
+ key "zk" into one or more labels. The "zTLD" is used as a
globally unique reference to a specific namespace in the
process of name resolution.
</dd>
@@ -214,7 +212,8 @@
<artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[
zkl := <Base32(zid)>
]]></artwork>
- <t>
+ <t>
+ If "zkl" is less than 63 characters, it is also the "zTLD".
If the resulting "zkl" should be longer than 63 characters, the
String must be divided into smaller labels separated by the label
separator ".". Where the most significant bytes of the "zid" be contained
@@ -223,7 +222,7 @@ zkl := <Base32(zid)>
assuming a "zkl" of 130 characters:
</t>
<artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[
-zkl[126:129].zkl[63:125].zkl[0:62]
+zTLD := zkl[126:129].zkl[63:125].zkl[0:62]
]]></artwork>
<!-- FIXME: We probably want to define more things here such as
how zone types are registered and identified ? -->
@@ -336,7 +335,7 @@ zk' := h mod L * zk
</t>
<t>
The "zid" of a PKEY is 32 + 4 bytes in length. This means that
- a Base32-encoded "zkl" will always fit into a single label and does
+ a Base32-encoded "zTLD" will always fit into a single label and does
not need any further conversion.
</t>
</section>
@@ -1527,13 +1526,13 @@ NICK: john (Supplemental)
</t>
<t>
GNS clients MUST first try to interpret the top-level domain of
- a GNS name as a zone key representation "zkl := NameSuffix(ztype, zk)".
+ a GNS name as a zone key representation ("zTLD").
If the top-level domain is indicated to be a label representation of
a public zone key with a well-defined "ztype" value, the root zone of
the resolution process is implicitly given by the suffic of the name:
</t>
<artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[
-Example name: www.example.<NameSuffix(ztype, zk)>
+Example name: www.example.<zTLD>
=> Root zone: zk of type ztype
=> Name to resolve from root zone: www.example
]]></artwork>
