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[Michael De Roover]

On Sunday, February 9, 2025 11:45:52 AM CET Carsten Strotmann via bind-users 
wrote:
 
> I've been teaching DNS for over 30 years now, and I have always been uneasy
> using the old terms. I've used to "dance around" them, mentioning them once
> and using different terms all along in the training. That was not good for
> the students, it was confusing.
> 
> I was glad when RFC 8499 (and
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-knodel-terminology ) came
> along. It solved a big problem for me personally, and I do not want go back
> using the old terms.
> 
> (for context: I'm from Germany)
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Carsten Strotmann

Hi Carsten, I appreciate your input! I like seeing teacher input like that, my 
own teacher (Gitte, wherever you are) will likely never participate here.

It's understandable that you're uneasy with these old terms, and I appreciate 
that you're able to express that here, including to me. I could've been one of 
your students too, who would've appreciated your direct takes on it. Whether 
that is something to be reflected onto tuition as a whole, you know better than 
I do. But if 8499 and its terminology gives you and your students a basis to 
build upon, that's wonderful!

Perhaps this would be as good of an email as any to express that I once walked 
the corridors with this teacher, where she bemoaned a colleague of hers that 
would unnecessarily ask her for advice and then claim it as his own. It left 
her very disappointed every time, to the point of complaining about it to 
yours truly.

If you want to make it in this industry, _do it yourself_. Don't rely on 
others to do it for you. Even as a mere student in that course, I saw so many 
peers leave after the first month because they thought it was little more than 
LAN parties. That is _not_ what this field is about! It's about network 
engineering first, entertainment four-hundred-and-fifteenth!

Anyway, (forwarded) rants aside.. that's what it's going to be for me today. 
Vielen dank!

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
Michael De Roover

Mail: isc at nixmagic.com
Web: michael.de.roover.eu.org