From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 29 1997 - 08:53:56 CST
In local.usenet you write:
>On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 11:24:58AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> it. So if ".invalid" does get accepted in some form by the ietf (it
>> implies a huge update of DNS routines worldwide to avoid going back to the
>> root every time), then the word will soon get around. But it is a job for
>> somewhere else in the ietf, not us.
>No, there is nothing to do here/ All that the IETF is specifying is that
>".invalid" is a reserved TLD that will never, ever be valid. Meaning
>you can use it and be sure mail to it will bounce, and we can tell software
>to not even bother mailing if it sees .invalid, and instead give a warning
>to the user.
Yes, but the bit of the ietf that makes a decision like that is not us. It
will be whoever decided and enacted that example.com was not a real
domain. And when whichever bit of the ietf has done that, then there is
still nothing left for us to do. The word will soon get around. So spend
your efforts on identifying and persuading the right bit of the ietf to do
that job.
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