Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

[Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>]

> Which brings up a question can a TLD be used like a domain name?
> 
> not just http://microsoft/ but bill.gate at microsoft will likely to fail to.
> 
> james
> 
	The Internet went to multi-label hostnames ~20 years ago.
	We added ".ARPA" to all the single label hostnames as part
	of that process.  The only hold over is "localhost" and
	that is implemeted locally, not in the global DNS.

	No sane TLD operator can expect "http://tld"; or "user at tld"
	to work reliably.  I suspect there are still mail configuations
	around that will re-write "user at tld" to "user at tld.ARPA".

	Should we be writting a RFC which states that MX and address
	records SHOULD NOT be added to the apex of a TLD zone?

	Should we be writting a RFC which states that single label
	hostnames/mail domains SHOULD NOT be looked up "as is" in
	the DNS?

	Mark
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