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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Hardie Request for Comments: 8958 December 2020 BCP: 65 Updates: 3405 Category: Best Current Practice ISSN: 2070-1721

              Updated Registration Rules for URI.ARPA

Abstract

 This document updates RFC 3405 by removing references to the IETF
 tree from the procedures for requesting that a URI scheme be inserted
 into the URI.ARPA zone.

Status of This Memo

 This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

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 (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
 received public review and has been approved for publication by the
 Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
 BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.

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Table of Contents

 1.  Introduction
   1.1.  Requirements Language
 2.  Updated Requirements
 3.  IANA Considerations
 4.  Security Considerations
 5.  References
   5.1.  Normative References
   5.2.  Informative References
 Author's Address

1. Introduction

 Part Five of the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) [RFC3405]
 describes the registration procedures for assignments in URI.ARPA.
 The document requires that registrations be in the "IETF tree" of URI
 registrations.  The use of URI scheme name trees was defined in RFC
 2717 [RFC2717] but discontinued by RFC 4395 [RFC4395] and its
 successors.  Since the use of trees was discontinued, there is no way
 in the current process set out in BCP 35 [RFC7595] to meet the
 requirement to register within that tree.

1.1. Requirements Language

 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
 "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
 BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
 capitals, as shown here.

2. Updated Requirements

 This document removes the normative requirement from RFC 3405
 [RFC3405] for registrations in URI.ARPA to be from the IETF URI tree.

 All registrations in URI.ARPA MUST now be for schemes that are
 permanent registrations, as described in BCP 35.

3. IANA Considerations

 This entire document is updated instructions to IANA.

4. Security Considerations

 This update does not change the security considerations in RFC 3405
 [RFC3405].

5. References

5.1. Normative References

 [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
            Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
            DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
            <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

 [RFC3405]  Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
            Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures", BCP 65,
            RFC 3405, DOI 10.17487/RFC3405, October 2002,
            <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3405>.

 [RFC7595]  Thaler, D., Ed., Hansen, T., and T. Hardie, "Guidelines
            and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes", BCP 35,
            RFC 7595, DOI 10.17487/RFC7595, June 2015,
            <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7595>.

 [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
            2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
            May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

5.2. Informative References

 [RFC2717]  Petke, R. and I. King, "Registration Procedures for URL
            Scheme Names", RFC 2717, DOI 10.17487/RFC2717, November
            1999, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2717>.

 [RFC4395]  Hansen, T., Hardie, T., and L. Masinter, "Guidelines and
            Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes", RFC 4395,
            DOI 10.17487/RFC4395, February 2006,
            <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4395>.

Author's Address

 Ted Hardie

 Email: ted.ietf@gmail.com