domain name for a RFC 1918 intranet

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9qmpp5$b35 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Andreas Meile <andreas.meile at onsite.ch> wrote:
>Technically, both ways will work correctly. So I'm simply seeking for
>an _authoritative_ source of standard (preferably a RFC document
>[number]) which provides a *clear* answer for this issue. So at the
>moment, both solutions seem to be based on personal opinions...

The only relevant RFC is 2606 Reserved Top Level DNS Names.

However, if this is for a private network behind a firewall, so neither the
names nor addresses will be visible to the real Internet, you can do
whatever you want.  Internet standards are irrelevant if you're not
interacting directly with the Internet.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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