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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">I wanted to draw attention to an Internet-Draft under development that seeks to remove the unique interdependency that the .arpa zone has with the root zone, by virtue of the zone being served
by the root servers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-iana-arpa-authoritative-servers-01.txt">https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-iana-arpa-authoritative-servers-01.txt</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">We are looking for additional review of the proposed changes before taking further steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">kim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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