Donald Eastlake wrote: >>| ".test" is RECOMMENDED for use in testing of current or new DNS >>| related code. Applications SHOULD treat ".test" like any other >>| TLD; a special handling could defeat the purpose of a test.
>> The interesting bit is the SHOULD, the RECOMMENDED is only a >> side-effect of using RFC 2119 key words. [...] > A problem I see is that "RECOMMENDED", in connection with .test, > implies that you should not deviate from it but 2606bis defines > additional testing TLDs. In the context of the complete memo that is hopefully clearer, but adding a forward pointer might help: | ".test" and the TLDs listed in section 4 are RECOMMENDED for use In theory the same objection could also affect the RECOMMENDED use of TLD ".example" with respect to chapter 3 (example.cno), but you had this as is in RFC 2606: Readers figured out that they can use *.example.cno and/or *.example as they see fit in their examples. For the known reasons *now* is not a good time to touch a single comma in the ten words of section 2.1 ".example" in the draft. ;-) Frank _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
