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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

T. Lemon
R. Droms
W. Kumari

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IETF

Source:

dnsop (ops)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8244

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Abstract

The policy defined in RFC 6761 for IANA registrations in the"Special-Use Domain Names" registry has been shown, throughexperience, to present challenges that were not anticipated when RFC6761 was written. This memo presents a list, intended to becomprehensive, of the problems that have since been identified. Inaddition, it reviews the history of domain names and summarizescurrent IETF publications and some publications from otherorganizations relating to Special-Use Domain Names.

This document should be considered required reading for IETFparticipants who wish to express an informed opinion on the topic ofSpecial-Use Domain Names.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.