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Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
RFC 8375

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['Homenet', 'TLD', 'RFC6761', '.home.arpa']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "T. Lemon": changed name from "Ted Lemon" to "T. Lemon", changed affiliation from "Nominum, Inc." to "Nibbhaya Consulting", cleared country (was "United States …
Changed author "T. Lemon": changed name from "Ted Lemon" to "T. Lemon", changed affiliation from "Nominum, Inc." to "Nibbhaya Consulting", cleared country (was "United States of America"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "P. Pfister": changed name from "Pierre Pfister" to "P. Pfister", cleared country (was "France"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2018-05-17
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8375
2018-05-17
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8375, changed title to 'Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'', changed abstract to 'This document specifies …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8375, changed title to 'Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'', changed abstract to 'This document specifies the behavior that is expected from the Domain Name System with regard to DNS queries for names ending with '.home.arpa.' and designates this domain as a special-use domain name. 'home.arpa.' is designated for non-unique use in residential home networks.  The Home Networking Control Protocol (HNCP) is updated to use the 'home.arpa.' domain instead of '.home'.', changed pages to 12, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2018-05-17, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created updates relation between draft-ietf-homenet-dot and RFC 7788)
2018-05-17
(System) RFC published