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The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)
draft-jabley-sink-arpa-03

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Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and
other stories)' to BCP

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories) '
   <draft-jabley-sink-arpa-01.txt> as a BCP

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group. 

The IESG contact person is Ralph Droms.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jabley-sink-arpa-01.txt

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   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 codified as modifications to the normal
   ARPA administration process.

Working Group Summary

   N/A

Document Quality

   Document is of the highest quality.

Personnel

   Olafur Gudmundsson (ogud@ogud.com) is the document shepherd.  Ralph
   Droms (rdroms@cisco.com) is the responsible Area Director.

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