Re: [DNSOP] register and unregister, was Tell me about the ISO 3166 user assigned two-letter codes and TLDs

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> prompts another question: if a name enters the Special-Use Name
>> Registry, is it parked (for an indefinite amount of time), or is it
>> engraved in stone (and won't move from that registry again)?  And can
>> the SUNR hold both types of names (parked and final)?
>
>Good question, not (as far as I know) explicitly addressed in RFC 6761.

It isn't.  Given what's in 6761, I doubt the question ever came up.

>The question might actually apply to many IANA registries.  Do the "Registration Procedures" apply to "unregistration" as well?  I don't know
>if there is any precedent here.

Well, the list of names in the root is nominally an IANA registry, and
they're removed lots of names such as .NATO and countries that no
longer exist such as .CS and .YU.  But somehow I'm guessing that's not
what you're thinking of.

It is my vague recollection that we have removed some old cruft from parameter
registries, but after some googlage I can't find any details.

R's,
John