[governance] IETF standard to reserve ".local"?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

For information, here is the Last Call inside IETF for the approval of
a new RFC which would reserve ".local" as a TLD, without bothering to
go through the long and expensive ICANN process.

Do note the section 3.1, which basically states that ICANN can be
ignored:

   Note that this use of the ".local." suffix falls under IETF/IANA
   jurisdiction, not ICANN jurisdiction. DNS is an IETF network
   protocol, governed by protocol rules defined by the IETF. These IETF
   protocol rules dictate character set, maximum name length, packet
   format, etc. ICANN determines additional rules that apply when the
   IETF's DNS protocol is used on the public Internet. In contrast,
   private uses of the DNS protocol on isolated private networks are not
   governed by ICANN. Since this change is a change to the core DNS
   protocol rules, it affects everyone, not just those machines using
   the ICANN-governed Internet. Hence this change falls into the
   category of an IETF protocol rule, not an ICANN usage rule.

   This allocation of responsibility is formally established in
   "Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the
   Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" [RFC 2860]. Exception (a) of
   clause 4.3 states that the IETF has the authority to instruct IANA
   to reserve pseudo-TLDs as required for protocol design purposes.
   For example, "Reserved Top Level DNS Names" [RFC 2606] defines
   the following pseudo-TLDs:

      .test
      .example
      .invalid
      .localhost
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