The ALT Special Use Top Level Domain
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dnsop W. Kumari
Internet-Draft Google
Intended status: Informational A. Sullivan
Expires: July 22, 2018 Oracle
January 18, 2018
The ALT Special Use Top Level Domain
draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-09
Abstract
This document reserves a string (ALT) to be used as a TLD label in
non-DNS contexts. It also provides advice and guidance to developers
developing alternative namespaces.
[Ed note: Text inside square brackets ([]) is additional background
information, answers to frequently asked questions, general musings,
etc. They will be removed before publication. This document is
being collaborated on in Github at: https://github.com/wkumari/draft-
wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld. The most recent version of the document, open
issues, etc should all be available here. The authors (gratefully)
accept pull requests. ]
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. The ALT namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Choice of the ALT Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Domain Name Reservation Considerations . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Appendix A. Changes / Author Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. Introduction
Many protocols and systems need to name entities. Names that look
like DNS names (a series of labels separated with dots) have become
common, even in systems that are not part of the global DNS
administered by IANA. This document reserves the label "ALT" (short
for "Alternative") as a Special Use Domain ([RFC6761]). This label
is intended to be used as the final (rightmost) label to signify that
the name is not rooted in the DNS, and that it should not be resolved
using the DNS protocol.
1.1. Requirements notation
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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1.2. Terminology
This document assumes familiarity with DNS terms and concepts.
Please see [RFC1034] for background and concepts, and [RFC7719] for
terminology. Readers are also expected to be familiar with the
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