On Monday, 10 February 2025 15:38:22 CET Roy Arends wrote: > https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-re > solutions-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." Other than confirming that .internal is green-lit, that actually raises a very interesting point. The matter of outreach. For all the technical prowess that this list and its members possess, it also seems quite modest in size and membership. Were it not for having been subscribed to it for a while (and seeing it being discussed now), I would've never known that this allocation happened in the first place.
It is why I consider the mention of inclusion into OpenWRT by Loganaden significant, despite seemingly having been ignored otherwise. It's something I find somewhat disheartening, aftermarket router firmware like it would be just about the best advertisement / outreach of this change I could think of. > > 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 Hehe, not to worry. I did not say that with a straight face. Even looking on Wikipedia's article about .int, makes it very clear that it (rightfully) has a significant barrier to even registration within that namespace. The idea was just an extension of the 3-character suffixes, as a little thought experiment. I like .internal and have no objections to it. If anything, I find the name quite elegant, it's descriptive and strikes a good balance between things like private access and suitably low impact on existing registries. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Michael De Roover Mail: [email protected] Web: michael.de.roover.eu.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
