DNS tree walk
02The current policy uses a bounded DNS tree walk rather than relying on one public-suffix-list interpretation.
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Honor policy-location preference and the separately determined alignment context.
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The tree walk supports policy discovery and alignment domain determination.
- The tree walk supports policy discovery and alignment domain determination.
- Policy discovery prefers the Author Domain, then its Organizational Domain, then its PSD.
- A policy found at the Author Domain does not always establish the Organizational Domain used for alignment.
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