Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

> 
>> 6.  Addresses used in examples SHOULD use fully qualified domain names
>>     instead of literal IP addresses, and SHOULD use example fqdn's
>>     such as foo.example.com instead of real-world fqdn's. See
>>     [RFC2606] (Eastlake, D. and A. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level DNS
>>     Names," June 1999.) for example domain names that can be used.
> 
> Why the SHOULD? Presumably, because you don't want naive folk to take
> the examples in the RFC and use them in local config files and such,
> causing problems or other undesirable effects when they (unexpectedly)
> get used in the real world..
> 
> But in cases where this really is not a concern, there is also
> presumably not a need to _require_ use of the example names.

+1

Also, I'm convinced that in a document requiring numerous example 
domains, that restricting to 2606 domains can reduce readability.
(the DSN specifications come immediately to mind)

Keith
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