Network Working Group T. Hardie Internet-Draft January 10, 2018 Updates: 4698 (if approved) Intended status: Standards Track Expires: July 14, 2018 Iris.arpa is Deprecated draft-hardie-iris-arpa-00 Abstract This document requests that iris.arpa and areg.iris.arpa be removed from the arpa zone. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on July 14, 2018. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2018 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Hardie Expires July 14, 2018 [Page 1] Internet-Draft irisarpa January 2018 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. Introduction The Internet Registry Information Service[RFC3981] described a client-server protocol for querying Internet registries. One intended usage of the protocol was address registries, described in [RFC4698]. That document requested the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) to instruct IANA to insert a new label under .arpa. The IAB requested that delegation as set out in [RFC3172], and IANA set up both iris.arpa and a sub-delegation, areg.iris.arpa, as requested. 2. Recommendation While IRIS was specified for this usage, it was not deployed for this purpose. At the request of the IAB, IANA reviewed usage statistics for the iris.arpa zone and found zero queries for areg.iris.arpa or NAPTR records during the survey period. This document recommends that these delgations be removed from .arpa. If approved, the IAB is requested to instruct IANA to remove them. 3. IANA Considerations This document requests that IANA remove .iris.arpa and its sub- delegations from the arpa zone upon receiving the relevant approval of the IAB. 4. Security Considerations If there are users which are testing for the presence of this domain, those tests will fail. Without evidence of the existence of those tests or knowledge of their purpose, the impact is unknown. 5. Acknowledgements Michelle Cotton and ICANN staff gathered the DNS request data on iris.arpa utilization. Michelle Cotton and Andy Newton reviewed this document. Hardie Expires July 14, 2018 [Page 2] Internet-Draft irisarpa January 2018 6. Normative References [RFC3172] Huston, G., Ed., "Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")", BCP 52, RFC 3172, DOI 10.17487/RFC3172, September 2001, . [RFC3981] Newton, A. and M. Sanz, "IRIS: The Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) Core Protocol", RFC 3981, DOI 10.17487/RFC3981, January 2005, . [RFC4698] Gunduz, E., Newton, A., and S. Kerr, "IRIS: An Address Registry (areg) Type for the Internet Registry Information Service", RFC 4698, DOI 10.17487/RFC4698, October 2006, . Author's Address Ted Hardie Email: ted.ietf@gmail.com Hardie Expires July 14, 2018 [Page 3]