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PROPOSED STANDARD

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RFC 1918,RFC 2606

Authors:

S. Cheshire
M. Krochmal

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IETF

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NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6761

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Abstract

This document describes what it means to say that a Domain Name (DNSname) is reserved for special use, when reserving such a name isappropriate, and the procedure for doing so. It establishes an IANAregistry for such domain names, and seeds it with entries for some ofthe already established special domain names.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.