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[Chris Phillips <Chris.Phillips AT canarie.ca>]

Hi,

A few days ago there was an entity that had a .local domain suffix which is a non traditional one and some federations had conversation about it and it was eventually removed by the origin federation (we assume).

Is there a working page that one can refer to that covers the inbound filtering that goes on (maybe on the eduGAIN wiki?) ?

As participant federations we know reasonably quickly when something is caught but knowing the filtering process steps would be helpful.

Questions bouncing around are: 

Are domains that appear on the RFC2606[1] reserved list allowed into eduGAIN? 

Is .local also filtered now?

While .local is not on that RFC, it's on RFC6762[2]. Wikipedia shows it bleeds out to root servers pretty significantly[2] and yet not routable.

Thanks.

C

[1] <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606>

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local see Global DNS Queries section.