[CWG-Stewardship] For your review - version V3.3
Jaap Akkerhuis
jaap at NLnetLabs.nl
Tue Apr 21 17:51:05 UTC 2015
David Conrad writes:
> >c) policy for INT is actually described in 1951 and further restricted
> > to just the international organisations (See iana.org for the
> > eligiblity rules.
>
> A nit: the current registration policy for .INT (now) limits that TLD to
> international _treaty_ organizations, and ones with "an independent legal
> personality", only.
Good catch, I was doing this from memory. That's why in in the proposed text I put the
reference to the iana INT policy page.
>
> > The last infrastructural database (ip6.int) was removed per RFC 4152 in
> >2005.
Note that this line is not in the proposed text so there is some wiggle room :-).
>
> Not quite. There are still a number of "infrastructure database" domains
> in .INT:
>
> ADSN.INT (not sure what this is)
> ATMA.INT (presumably Asynchronous Transfer Mode address reverse mappings)
> IP4.INT (reverse mappings for IPv4 addresses, not used -- in-addr.arpa is
> used instead)
> NSAP.INT (OSI NSAP reverse mappings, see
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1706)
> RDI.INT (not sure what this is, might be related to ATM)
> REG.INT (used (at least) for TSIG algorithm names, see
> https://tools.ietf.org/htmp/rfc2845)
> TPC.INT ("The Phone Company", see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1703)
>
> Not sure how many of these are still used.
I didn't realize these things were (still) in. I did a quick check
and noticed that most nameservers of these domains don't respond
to anything.
I'm not sure whether it is worth mentioning it.
jaap
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