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Re: [dnsext] Last Call: <draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01.txt> (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> Fri, 04 February 2011 12:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] Last Call: <draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01.txt> (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard
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* Stephane Bortzmeyer:

> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 12:41:58PM +0000,
>  Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote 
>  a message of 26 lines which said:
>
>> > I observe that the document is not putting any names in the registry
>> > it is creating.  Are there names that should be in the registry?
>> 
>> LOCAL. 
>
> It is not mentioned in draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01

Wrong document?

> (otherwise, I would have challenged the right of Apple to hijack TLD

It's not just Apple, not even close.

> by unilateral decision).

IIRC, previous attempts predating Multicast DNS to reserve this name
have failed.  That might have been one reason why RFCs have been
reluctant to mention special names.

Oh, and if we cannot put LOCAL. into the registry now, I'm quite
certain that the registry will always remain empty. 8-)

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