Sorry if I’m coming a bit late to the party, but what exactly would flagging an 
RFC as “historic” actually do?

In the case of .us the RFC is referenced in multiple registration policies 
mostly in relation to the “locality” hierarchical concept that is peculiar to 
the .us ccTLD
https://www.about.us/policies/ustld-locality-registrant-terms-and-conditions
https://www.about.us/locality-structure
https://www.about.us/policies/ustld-delegated-manager-agreement

So if you are the registrant of $thing.us you aren’t impacted by the RFC 
explicitly these days, but if you are using one of the delegated ones you could 
be?

Regards

Michele


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From: Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, 19 December 2025 at 15:39
To: John R Levine <[email protected]>
Cc: Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [DNSOP] Re: Not Moving RFC1480 (The US Domain) to Historic

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"John R Levine" <[email protected]> writes:

> That's the policy for country codes that don't exist any more, like
> when .CS split into .CZ and .SK, or .TP turned into .TL.  While I am
> less certain than I used to be, I am fairly sure that .US still
> exists.

You're missing my point...  If the process of making the RFC historic
means the registration process / holdership for the current registrants
will change, or worse be suddenly pulled out from underneath them, then
shouldn't they have a warning period that the entire .us structure is
about to change how it's run?  IE, "this is going historic in 5 years"
seems safer to the current end-user registrants.

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