Kim,

I concur with Joe on this. It would be good practice to tidy up these 
appendages. 

I too would be happy to contribute text as appropriate. 

Bob

> On Nov 11, 2021, at 11:56, Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> 
> I like the idea of cleaning this up.
> 
> Choosing nsap.int as an example, I think it would be useful to either update 
> RFC 1706 to make it clear that the advice in section 6 of that document no 
> longer applies, and that no reverse mapping for NSAP is provided in the DNS. 
> I don't think this is a great operational necessity since I imagine the 
> number of people who expect this to work is approximately zero but it seems 
> good to be tidy.
> 
> [I'd suggest reclassifying 1706 to historic but that'd also affect the 
> specification for the NSAP RRType; maybe that's a good idea too, but it seems 
> outside the scope of what you are trying to achieve, and I don't know how we 
> would confirm that it's a good idea.]
> 
> Similar comment for other domains where there's similar existing advice.
> 
> Happy to offer actual text if that seems useful.
> 
> 
> Joe
> 
>> On 11 Nov 2021, at 11:38, Kim Davies <kim.dav...@iana.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Colleagues,
>> 
>> I wanted to draw your attention to an Internet Draft we’ve developed,
>> its goal is to formally deprecate a number of historic “.int”
>> domains that were designated for Internet infrastructure purposes
>> decades ago and appear for all intents and purposes obsolete. After some
>> limited consultation on developing the approach so far, it would be
>> useful to get some additional eyes on it so we have greater confidence
>> there is nothing we’ve missed.
>> 
>> Datatracker link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davies-int-historic/
>> 
>> It’s a short document, but at its heart we’ve identified the
>> following domains that are referenced in places but seem to be obsolete:
>> 
>>            atma.int, ip4.int, nsap.int, rdi.int, reg.int, tpc.int
>> 
>> Most of these are not delegated in the int zone any longer, but there
>> are lingering references to them.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any insight, and apologies if you get this message
>> in duplicate,
>> 
>> kim
>> 
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