Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Wed, 02 July 2008 23:24 UTC

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To: James Seng <james@seng.sg>
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Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:23:58 +1000
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> Which brings up a question can a TLD be used like a domain name?
> 
> not just http://microsoft/ but bill.gate@microsoft will likely to fail to.
> 
> james
> 
	The Internet went to multi-label hostnames ~20 years ago.
	We added ".ARPA" to all the single label hostnames as part
	of that process.  The only hold over is "localhost" and
	that is implemeted locally, not in the global DNS.

	No sane TLD operator can expect "http://tld" or "user@tld"
	to work reliably.  I suspect there are still mail configuations
	around that will re-write "user@tld" to "user@tld.ARPA".

	Should we be writting a RFC which states that MX and address
	records SHOULD NOT be added to the apex of a TLD zone?

	Should we be writting a RFC which states that single label
	hostnames/mail domains SHOULD NOT be looked up "as is" in
	the DNS?

	Mark
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