Re: [dns-dir] Draft requesting reservation of special-use domain names

[Erik Nordmark <[e-mail]>]

On 11/27/13 9:29 AM, Olaf Kolkman wrote:

>> Thus from my reading of appendix G its status is quite clear. It
>> doesn't say anything about future use of the suggested intranet labels.
>
>
> But people who are not IETF close readers might have interpreted this
> paragraph as being normative and an indication of ‘safe to use’.

Olaf,

I can see how a statement along the lines of
	don't use "localhost" - folks seem to be using "X" instead
can be read as an endorsement of X as opposed to X being less bad than 
localhost.

Anyhow ...

> In any case the question is whether we should clarify. If we do we can
> go two ways:
> 1 Using these labels: your own dumb fault, you should have know better
> 2 These labels are reserved for private use, because we have been
> confusing, and because of wide public use suggested by various forms of
> documentation. The will be banned for delegation from the root: beware
> of collisions and undefined behavior.
>
> I’d opt for writing such document and I’d opt for version 2.

In light of new gTLDs it does make sense to produce a clarification, and 
#2 makes sense to me.

Question is whether that document will be strictly limited to the names 
listed in RFC 6762 or open up the door to consider other names.

    Erik