Douglas Brian Terry, Mark Painter, David W. Riggle and Songnian Zhou, The Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server, Proceedings USENIX Summer Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1984, pages 23–31.
Mockapetris, Paul: Letting DNS Loose. CircleID, 2004. január 2. „RFID tags, UPC codes, International characters in email addresses and host names, and a variety of other identifiers could all go into DNS [...] — it's ready to carry arbitrary identifiers.”
RFC 1034, Domain Names – Concepts and Facilities, P. Mockapetris, The Internet Society (November 1987)
RFC 781, Internet Protocol – DARPA Internet Program Protocol Specification, Information Sciences Institute, J. Postel (Ed.), The Internet Society (September 1981)
RFC 1035, Domain Names – Implementation and Specification, P. Mockapetris, The Internet Society (November 1987)
RFC 3467, Role of the Domain Name System (DNS), J.C. Klensin, J. Klensin (February 2003)
RFC 2181, Clarifications to the DNS Specification, R. Elz, R. Bush (July 1997)
Network Working Group of the IETF,
January 2006,
RFC 4343: Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification
RFC 3696, Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names, J.C. Klensin, J. Klensin
RFC 3490, IDN in Applications, Faltstrom, Hoffman, Costello, Internet Engineering Task Force (2003)
RFC 1912: “Every Internet-reachable host should have a name.”
RFC 1912: "Many services available on the Internet will not talk to you if you aren't correctly registered in the DNS."
RFC 5395, Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations, D. Eastlake 3rd (November 2008), Section 3
RFC 5395, Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations, D. Eastlake 3rd (November 2008), p. 11
RFC 4592, The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name System, E. Lewis (July 2006)
RFC 4035, Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions, R. Arends, Telematica Instituut, 2005. Section 4.1 EDNS Support