[66217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Jan 4 17:08:25 2004
To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc: Ray Wong <rayw@rayw.net>, nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu,
spamtools@lists.abuse.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:43:36 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:07:41 -0500
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:43:36 PST, Roger Marquis said:
> Example.dom was placed in the pubic domain by a public and open RFC
> process. It seems that IANA has violated this process and in so
> doing exceeded the authority vested in them by their contract with
> DARPA (and the DOC?).
Erm. No, RFC2606 specifically says:
3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the
following second level domain names reserved which can be used as
examples.
example.com
example.net
example.org
4. IANA Considerations
IANA has agreed to the four top level domain name reservations
specified in this document and will reserve them for the uses
indicated.
In other words, they're IANA reserved, and you're permitted to use them
for the purposes listed in the RFC.
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