John C Klensin wrote:
Issue 34 assigned.
Thanks.
Please use "edu.example" where Arnt proposed "example.edu", the
latter is not covered by 2606, and there's no RFC published by
TLD edu about their practice to reserve example.edu for examples.
If the main consideration here is that people believe that
2821bis would be improved, or reader confusion reduced, by
switching to names specifically provided for in 2606, then we
should do it.
My consideration is that I don't know the owner of foo.com and
can't tell if he likes that addresses in his domain are used in
2821. And if he likes it I'd wonder if 2821 is a good place for
foo.com search engine optimization.
Another consideration are users making up what they think are
"random" addresses / IPs / etc. hurting real addresses. The
address harvesters and spiders are everywhere. It's just bad
practice to make up example addreses if there are reserved IPs,
domains, and phone numbers for such purposes.
YMMD.
At some point in time we'll neeed a 2606bis, the first attempt
in this direction wasn't convincing, we discussed this in 2005:
http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.ietf.general/thread=16473/focus=17105
Frank