I submitted a draft related to this issue last year. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yao-dnsop-tld-names-00
In this draft, I called this kind of names as TLD names instead of dotless domains. Jiankang Yao From: Dave Crocker Date: 2013-07-11 05:39 To: ietf CC: IETF Discussion Subject: Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains On 7/10/2013 11:59 AM, Russ Housley wrote: > The IAB has made a statement on dotless domains. You can find this statement > here: > http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2013-2/iab-statement-dotless-domains-considered-harmful/ It's unfortunate that the IAB did not choose to circulate a draft before releasing the Statement. The Statement could have been made a bit stronger in the concern it expresses. There's been a separate discussion on the SMTP mailing list about the ICANN SSAC report on the topic of dotless domains. The report correctly notes that there are also email barriers to the use of dotless domains. The report incorrectly attributes these to the email standards, which do not prohibit the use. (To be fair the format standard RFC 2822, which was in force for a number of years, did have the prohibition, but neither its predecessor nor its successor -- the current standard RFC5322 -- carry the limitation.) Rather, the SMTP mailing list confirmed common software implementation barriers, sometimes due to the DNS-related stricture. More interesting were other concerns about possible attacks and configuration errors. The example of localhost was cited. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net
