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RFC 4367
Title: What\'s in a Name: False
Assumptions about DNS Names
Author: J. Rosenberg, Ed.,
IAB
Status: Informational
Date: February 2006
Mailbox: jdrosen@cisco.com
Pages: 17
Characters: 41724
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-03.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4367.txt
The Domain Name System (DNS) provides an essential service on the
Internet, mapping structured names to a variety of data, usually IP
addresses. These names appear in email addresses, Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs), and other application-layer identifiers that are
often rendered to human users. Because of this, there has been a
strong demand to acquire names that have significance to people,
through equivalence to registered trademarks, company names, types of
services, and so on. There is a danger in this trend; the humans and
automata that consume and use such names will associate specific
semantics with some names and thereby make assumptions about the
services that are, or should be, provided by the hosts associated
with the names. Those assumptions can often be false, resulting in a
variety of failure conditions. This document discusses this problem
in more detail and makes recommendations on how it can be avoided. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board.
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USC/Information Sciences Institute
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 4367
Title: What\'s in a Name: False
Assumptions about DNS Names
Author: J. Rosenberg, Ed.,
IAB
Status: Informational
Date: February 2006
Mailbox: jdrosen@cisco.com
Pages: 17
Characters: 41724
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-03.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4367.txt
The Domain Name System (DNS) provides an essential service on the
Internet, mapping structured names to a variety of data, usually IP
addresses. These names appear in email addresses, Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs), and other application-layer identifiers that are
often rendered to human users. Because of this, there has been a
strong demand to acquire names that have significance to people,
through equivalence to registered trademarks, company names, types of
services, and so on. There is a danger in this trend; the humans and
automata that consume and use such names will associate specific
semantics with some names and thereby make assumptions about the
services that are, or should be, provided by the hosts associated
with the names. Those assumptions can often be false, resulting in a
variety of failure conditions. This document discusses this problem
in more detail and makes recommendations on how it can be avoided. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board.
INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community.
It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution
of this memo is unlimited.
This announcement is sent to the IETF list and the RFC-DIST list.
Requests to be added to or deleted from the IETF distribution list
should be sent to IETF-REQUEST@IETF.ORG. Requests to be
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unlimited distribution.
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RFC-EDITOR@RFC-EDITOR.ORG. Please consult RFC 2223, Instructions to RFC
Authors, for further information.
Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
USC/Information Sciences Institute
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