The IESG has concluded that there is no conflict between this document and IETF work. Additionally, the IESG requests the following note be added to the document if it is published: The IAB has stated that dotless domains are considered harmful. There is IETF consensus on the the operation of the root zone and the expected behavior of resolvers. The author of hoffine-already-dotless-01 do not take a position as to whether they are harmful or not, however the IESG believes that operators who currently publish these records should remove them.