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Title : Problem Statement for the Reservation of Top-Level Domains in the Special-Use Domain Names Registry
Authors : Joe Abley
Peter Koch
Alain Durand
Warren Kumari
Filename : draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem-02.txt
Pages : 18
Date : 2016-03-21
Abstract:
The dominant protocol for name resolution on the Internet is the
Domain Name System (DNS). However, other protocols exist that are
fundamentally different from the DNS, and may or may not share the
same namespace.
When an end-user triggers resolution of a name on a system which
supports multiple, different protocols (or resolution mechanisms) for
name resolution, it is desirable that the protocol used is
unambiguous, and that requests intended for one protocol are not
inadvertently answered using another.
RFC 6761 introduced a framework by which, under certain
circumstances, a particular domain name could be acknowledged as
being special. This framework has been used twice to reserve top-
level domains (.local and .onion) that should not be used within the
DNS, to avoid the possibility of namespace collisions in parallel use
of non-DNS name resolution protocols.
Various challenges have become apparent with this application of the
guidance provided in RFC 6761. This document aims to document those
challenges in the form of a problem statement, to facilitate further
discussion of potential solutions.
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem/
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