@techreport{jabley-sink-arpa-03, number = {draft-jabley-sink-arpa-03}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jabley-sink-arpa/03/}, author = {Joe Abley and Ólafur Guðmundsson}, title = {{The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)}}, pagetotal = 12, year = 2010, month = jan, day = 21, abstract = {This document specifies a fully-qualified domain name in the Domain Name System (DNS) that can be relied upon never to exist. The availability of a name in the DNS which is guaranteed not to exist has useful operational applications. This document also provides a procedural framework for other names that have special characteristics to be reserved, and for those special characteristics to be codified as modifications to the normal ARPA administration process.}, }