Re: [Int-area] 2606bis localhost and IPv6

Donald Eastlake wrote:

>>| ".test" is RECOMMENDED for use in testing of current or new DNS
>>| related code.  Applications SHOULD treat ".test" like any other
>>| TLD; a special handling could defeat the purpose of a test.

>> The interesting bit is the SHOULD, the RECOMMENDED is only a 
>> side-effect of using RFC 2119 key words.
[...]

> A problem I see is that "RECOMMENDED", in connection with .test,
> implies that you should not deviate from it but 2606bis defines
> additional testing TLDs.

In the context of the complete memo that is hopefully clearer, but
adding a forward pointer might help:  

| ".test" and the TLDs listed in section 4 are RECOMMENDED for use

In theory the same objection could also affect the RECOMMENDED use
of TLD ".example" with respect to chapter 3 (example.cno), but you
had this as is in RFC 2606:  Readers figured out that they can use
*.example.cno and/or *.example as they see fit in their examples.

For the known reasons *now* is not a good time to touch a single
comma in the ten words of section 2.1 ".example" in the draft. ;-)

 Frank

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