[DNSOP] Re: Call for Adoption: draft-davies-internal-tld

[Karl Dyson <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:38:42AM +0200, Benno Overeinder wrote:
> All,
> 
> At IETF 122, there appeared to be some agreement to adopt this work within
> DNSOP.
> 

I support adoption of this on the basis that I think that guidance is
needed for (at least) operators.

.internal isn't special in most ways; ICANN have reserved it for
private/internal use much like RFC1918 address space is reserved for
private/internal use.

.internal should not get any special processing by DNS servers any more
than 10.0.0.0/8 gets any special handling by routers or firewalls.

I wouldn't want to find that, for example, records within it are not
cached or some other unexpected handling by auth or recursive resolvers.

I'd want to be able to create a zone for it and/or delegate from it
within a private network of DNS servers, and have all the usual
recursion and/or forwards and/or caching work.

Some guidance to operators that says "suggested practice for use of this
TLD within your network is A, B and C, noting that this TLD will not
work on the internet".

Best wishes,
Karl

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Karl Dyson