@techreport{gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-04, number = {draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-04}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr/04/}, author = {Joe Gersch and Dan Massey and Eric Osterweil and Cathie Olschanowsky}, title = {{Reverse DNS Naming Convention for CIDR Address Blocks}}, pagetotal = 29, year = 2013, month = feb, day = 25, abstract = {This draft proposes a naming convention for encoding CIDR address blocks into the reverse DNS namespace. The reverse DNS naming method is commonly used to specify a complete IP address. This document describes how to encode an IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR address block such as 129.82.128.0/17. By defining a common naming convention, one can associate information with a prefix. The convention builds on past work in RFC 1101 that associates network names with prefixes. However, this previous work pre-dated the introduction of CIDR and has several critical ambiguities. This convention corrects the ambiguities and enables new applications ranging from routing information to geolocation.}, }