Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 25
Abstract: The policy defined in RFC 6761 for IANA registrations in the "Special-Use Domain Names" registry has been shown, through experience, to present challenges that were not anticipated when RFC 6761 was written. This memo presents a list, intended to be comprehensive, of the problems that have since been identified. In addition, it reviews the history of domain names and summarizes current IETF publications and some publications from other organizations relating to Special-Use Domain Names. This document should be considered required reading for IETF participants who wish to express an informed opinion on the topic of Special-Use Domain Names.
Publication Date: 2017-10-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8244
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8244
Author(s): Ted Lemon
Ralph Droms
Warren Kumari

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IETF draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem-06 [Active*]
IETF draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-02 [Active*]
IETF.draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-04 — P2P-DOMAIN-NAMES EXTERNAL
IETF.draft-lewis-domain-names-09 — DOMAIN-NAMES EXTERNAL
CA/Browser Forum, "Guidance on the Deprecation of Internal Server Names and Reserved IP Addresses", June 2012, < https://cabforum.org/internal-names/ >. EXTERNAL
ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, "SSAC Advisory on the Stability of the Domain Namespace", ICANN SAC090, December 2016, < https://www.icann.org/en/ system/files/files/sac-090-en.pdf >. EXTERNAL
IANA, "Special-Use Domain Names", < http://www.iana.org/ assignments/special-use-domain-names >. EXTERNAL
Interisle Consulting Group, LLC, "Name Collision in the DNS", Version 1.5, August 2013, < https://www.icann.org/ en/system/files/files/name-collision-02aug13-en.pdf >. EXTERNAL
ICANN, "gTLD Applicant Guidebook", Version 2012-06-04, June 2012, < https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/ guidebook-full-04jun12-en.pdf >. EXTERNAL
CA/Browser Forum, "Ballot 144 - Validation Rules for .onion Names", February 2015, < https://cabforum.org/2015/ 02/18/ballot-144-validation-rules-dot-onion-names >. EXTERNAL
Tor, "Tor - Anonymity Online", < https://www.torproject.org >. EXTERNAL
CA/Browser Forum, "SSL Certificates for Internal Server Names", January 2013, < https://www.digicert.com/internal-names.htm >. EXTERNAL
IETF, "Proceedings of the 51st IETF Meeting", August 2001, < http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/51/51-45.htm#TopOfPage >. EXTERNAL
IETF, "Liaison Statement from the IAB to the ICANN Board on Technical Use of Domain Names", September 2014, < https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1351 >. EXTERNAL
ICANN, "Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)", December 2016, < https://www.icann.org/groups/ssac >. EXTERNAL
Wikipedia, "Network Information Service", August 2017, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Network_Information_Service >. EXTERNAL
CA/Browser Forum, "CA/Browser Forum Home Page", < https://cabforum.org >. EXTERNAL
IAB, "Internet Architecture Board statement on the registration of special use names in the ARPA domain", March 2017, < https://www.iab.org/documents/ correspondence-reports-documents/2017-2/iab-statement-on- the-registration-of-special-use-names-in-the-arpa- domain/>. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 882 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 883 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 959 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1002 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1034 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1035 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 1918 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2352 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2826 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2860 [Active*]
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IETF RFC 6303 [Active*]
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IETF RFC 6760 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6761 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6762 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7050 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7686 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7719 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7788 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 8324 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8880 [Active*]