A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Reverse DNS Naming Convention for CIDR Address Blocks Author(s) : Joe Gersch Dan Massey Eric Osterweil Cathie Olschanowsky Filename : draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-04.txt Pages : 29 Date : 2013-02-25 Abstract: This draft proposes a naming convention for encoding CIDR address blocks into the reverse DNS namespace. The reverse DNS naming method is commonly used to specify a complete IP address. This document describes how to encode an IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR address block such as 129.82.128.0/17. By defining a common naming convention, one can associate information with a prefix. The convention builds on past work in RFC 1101 that associates network names with prefixes. However, this previous work pre-dated the introduction of CIDR and has several critical ambiguities. This convention corrects the ambiguities and enables new applications ranging from routing information to geolocation. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-04 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt