RFC 8244: Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement

The policy defined in RFC 6761 for IANA registrations in the "Special-Use Domain Names" registry has been shown, through experience, to present challenges…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Informative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 959: File Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Informative reference — RFC 2860: Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Informative reference — RFC 6598: IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space
Informative reference — RFC 6761: Special-Use Domain Names
Informative reference — RFC 7050: Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis
Informative reference — RFC 882: Domain names: Concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 883: Domain names: Implementation specification
Informative reference — RFC 6303: Locally Served DNS Zones
Informative reference — RFC 7719: DNS Terminology
Informative reference — RFC 2826: IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root
Informative reference — RFC 7788: Home Networking Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1002: Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP transport: Detailed specifications
Informative reference — RFC 6760: Requirements for a Protocol to Replace the AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol (NBP)
Informative reference — RFC 7686: The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name
Informative reference — RFC 2352: A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9476: The .alt Special-Use Top-Level Domain
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9874: Best Practices for Deletion of Domain and Host Objects in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8880: Special Use Domain Name 'ipv4only.arpa'
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9498: The GNU Name System