The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement' (draft-ietf-dnsop-sutld-ps-08.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Domain Name System Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Benoit Claise. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-sutld-ps/ Technical Summary The Special-Use Domain Names IANA registry policy defined in RFC 6761 has been shown through experience to present unanticipated challenges. This memo presents a list, intended to be comprehensive, of the problems that have been identified. In addition it reviews the history of Domain Names and summarizes current IETF publications and some publications from other organizations relating to Special- Use Domain Names. Working Group Summary This document was the result of a decision in DNSOP to attempt to characterize the problems we actually face with special use names before attempting to analyze any of several proposals and contending beliefs about how to resolve them. The document has been a considerable time in the making but has WG consensus as a list of the relevant issues and challenges. As such, it can reasonably be the basis for future work in this area, whether it's within scope/charter for DNSOP or not. Document Quality The document summarizes many discussions and documents across DNSOP, the wider IETF, and other concerned communities to date. Personnel Shepherd: Suzanne Woolf Area Director: Benoit Claise
