> On 10 Feb 2025, at 10:41, Michael De Roover <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, February 9, 2025 10:25:41 PM CET John Levine wrote:
>> They're not thinking about it.  They did it.  See
>> https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/proposed-top-level-domain
>> -string-for-private-use-24-01-2024
> 
>> The question here is what if anything the IETF should do about it, with a
>> variety of options such as do nothing, add it to the RFC 6761 registry,
>> and/or ask IANA to put a DNSSEC opt-out in the root zone.
>> 
>> R's,
>> John
> 
> Hi John, thanks for the heads-up. I've read the linked article and noticed 
> that I have at least 3 years of catching up to do. So far it appears that the 
> decision to use the string "internal" specifically has reached reasonable 
> consensus, but I think I could use a confirmation on that.

https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-special-meeting-of-the-icann-board-29-07-2024-en#section2.a

"Resolved (2024.07.29.06), the Board reserves .INTERNAL from delegation in the 
DNS root zone permanently to provide for its use in private-use applications. 
The Board recommends that efforts be undertaken to raise awareness of its 
reservation for this purpose through the organization's technical outreach."

> What I also find noteworthy is that some of these comments requested for 
> .internal to be something shorter. Going with the logic behind .lan, .vpn, 
> and 
> .sat, I would gravitate towards .int. But let's not pretend that we can just 
> take "international" to suddenly become "our little internal networks" ;-)

.int is in use:

https://www.iana.org/domains/int

Roy Arends
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