The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Special-Use Domain Names' (draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-02.txt) as Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ralph Droms. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names/ Technical Summary Certain individual IP addresses and IP address ranges are treated specially by network implementations, and consequently are not suitable for use as unicast addresses. For example, IPv4 addresses 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 are multicast addresses [RFC2606], with 224.0.0.1 being the "all hosts" multicast address [RFC1112] [RFC5771]. Another example is 127.0.0.1, the IPv4 "local host" address [RFC5735]. Analogous to Special-Use IPv4 Addresses [RFC5735], DNS has its own concept of reserved names, such as "example.com", "example.net", and "example.org", or any name falling under the top level pseudo-domain "invalid" [RFC2606]. However, "Reserved Top Level DNS Names" [RFC2606] does not state whether implementations are expected to treat such names differently, and if so, in what way. This document describes what it means to say that a DNS name is reserved for special use, when reserving such a name is appropriate, and the procedure for doing so. Working Group Summary N/A. This document is being processed as an AD-sponsored individual submission. The authors consider the document ready for publication. Document Quality The document is short and clearly defines a new IANA registry for DNS special-use names. Personnel This document is being processed as an AD-sponsored individual submission. Ralph Drosm <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com> is the responsible area director.
