RFCs Related to the Root Service
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! RFC !! Title !! Date !! Status !! Latest Ann.
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| 7108 || A Summary of Various Mechanisms Deployed at L-Root for the Identification of Anycast Nodes || January 2014 || Informational ||
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| 7706 || Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback || November 2015 || Informational; Obsoleted by RFC 8806 ||
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| 7720 || DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment Requirements || December 2015 || Best Current Practice ||
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| 7958 || DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone || August 2016 || Informational ||
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| 8109 || Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming Queries || March 2017 || Best Current Practice ||
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| 8806 || Running a Root Server Local to a Resolver || June 2020 || Informational || 2020-06-01
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