Is '.local' officially defined/reserved ?

[Simon Hobson]

Joe Kattner wrote:

>RFC 2606 (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2606.txt) defines the
>following as reserved TLD's:
>
>.test
>.example
>.invalid
>.localhost
>
>Hope that helps,

Not really since I was asking about '.local' !

I'm assuming that it must have some sort of official definition since 
so many manufacturers are using it - or is it one of those "if we all 
use it they will be forced to make it a standard" type of things ?

Simon

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