Verisign, Inc. · NASDAQ:VRSN

Verisign — Technical Presentation (March 2014)

6 slides from Verisign's technical presentation, Mar 7, 2014

1. Slide 1: ALT Special Use TLD

   ALT Special Use TLD draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-00 1 IETF 89, London, .uk -- 2014-03-07

2. Slide 2: What’s the problem?!

   What’s the problem?! • Pseudo-TLDs • Rightmost label of “DNS like” names in non-DNS contexts • What? Why?! • People like naming things. • DNS is common / successful. • But folk might want another namespace. • Browser plugins / special stub resolvers. • Confidential • This is the point of many of the

3. Slide 3: So? Magnitude?

   So? • Magnitude? • 5 in grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names • .gnu, .zkey, .onion, .exit, .i2p • >=6 historic • .bitnet, .csnet, .uucp, .oz, .free, … • Others • .dns, … • Seems likely more coming. • … and these can and do leak… 3

4. Slide 4: ALT Special Use doc

   ALT Special Use doc • Provide advice to developers * 1. Don’t do this, use $foo.example.com 2. If you cannot, because … • Reserve .alt as a Special-Use Domain Name • Locally Served DNS Zone • for extra credit, drop on stubs, AS112,… • use $foo.alt * :TBD. 4

5. Slide 5: Why?!

   Why?! • Provide safe place for folk to do this. • Some might. • Some won’t. • Provides some pushback option. • Todo • Clarify RFC 6761 - “Special-Use Domain Names” • Play nice with ICANN 5

6. Slide 6: Open Questions

   Open Questions • IANA Registry? Record usage? 6

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