Some Considerations on the Use of Domain Names Outside of the Global Public Domain Name System
2018
From time to time, networking protocols need to be able to name things
used within the protocol, and resolve the names created or referenced.
It's common for protocol designers to attempt to use domain names
as the starting point for their systems of names, and the DNS protocol
as the starting point for name resolution. Such re- use of DNS naming
and resolution conventions can cause issues if not carefully defined
and handled, as applications and infrastructure in the modern Internet
tend to assume that a "domain name" is an identifier that follows
certain composition and allocation rules and is to be resolved by DNS
protocol in the global default scope. This document acknowledges this
class of extensions to the shared domain namespace and considers a
framework for the properties a naming and resolution convention should
have in the internet protocol environment, including the avoidance of
collision with other uses of the namespace. Depending to the answers
to the suggested questions, the answer may be that domain names will
not meet the constraints at hand.
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