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

[Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba at hotmail.com>]

Mark Andrews said:
 
"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?"
 
Both sound like good ideas to me.  
 
 

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