The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The "_for-sale" Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Name' (draft-davids-forsalereg-21.txt) as Informational RFC
This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Mohamed Boucadair. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davids-forsalereg/ Technical Summary This document defines an operational convention that uses the reserved underscored DNS leaf node name "_for-sale" to indicate that the parent domain name is available for purchase. The convention can be deployed without disrupting existing operations, and it may be applied even when the domain name is still actively in use. Document Quality The convention has been implemented in the .NL registry by SIDN and as a result there are +2 years of experience in using it. There is running code available at: <https://forsalereg.sidnlabs.nl/demo> with source code available at: <https://github.com/mdavids/rfc/blob/main/tools/webserver.go> A DNS zone has been published for the purposes of checking implementations of this protocol: testdns.nl Another implementation of a tool to perform syntax checking is available at <https://forsale.bitfire.nl>. Notably this tool was constructed using an LLM trained on the specification that is the subject of this review. This provides additional confidence that the specification is sufficiently complete and unambiguous for it to be used to produce a conformant implementation. An implementation of a lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows clients to check whether a domain name advertises itself for sale can be found here: <https://github.com/CultriX-Github/mcp-forsale> Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Joe Abley. The Responsible Area Director is Mohamed Boucadair. RFC Editor Note Please make this change: OLD: Some URI schemes RECOMMENDED in Section 2.2.3 do not mandate NEW: Some URI schemes recommended in Section 2.2.3 do not mandate _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
