Request to use "Canonical/Mirror"

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On May 13, 2022, at 19.10, Felicia P <felicia at picorealm.net> wrote:
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> Hello, I see that ISC updated terminology for BIND9 to use primary/secondary in addition to the original master/slave which many projects have been deprecating.
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> In the context of BIND9, it seems that 'primary/secondary' is less clear than master/slave.
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> My understanding is that it is possible to have a standalone BIND server that is running as a 'master' yet acting as a 'secondary' for a particular domain.  In this context, secondary doesn't necessarily refer to the 'slave' status of the server, but that it is sort of like a backup server in the event that the primary is unavailable.
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> Given this, it seems like instead of 'primary/secondary', a better choice of terms would be 'canonical/mirror' which unambiguously conveys the roles of respective servers and does not overlap with other contexts or meanings of primary/secondary.

servers are neither master, nor slave, nor primary, nor secondary.  zones are.