On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:02:16 +1200, Roger De Salis
The Internet NZ Council has pointed out on numerous occasasions to current holders of the keys to the asylum the extremely bad record NZ has with Lame delegations, particularly since Domainz gave up a) being the only game in town b) absolutely enforcing the requirement of dual DNS entries.
As I understand it Domainz never enforced dual DNS entries, except at registration. This is one of the reasons why the Technical Committee in March 2002 (which Roger was listed as a member of) recommended (at http://tinyurl.com/l38h) to drop the requirement to check at registration but not delegate to the zone file any registration with less than two name servers. This decision was specifically consulted on NZNOG by the then Chair of Tech Cmte. The issue of lame delegations was referred again to Technical Committee (after reports it was increasing as a problem) and in May 2003 they reported (http://tinyurl.com/l38v) with recommendations accepted for the DNC to consult on: "1 - That the DNC adopt a policy to 'require' registrars to avoid lame delegations" "2 - That the DNC set up a mechanism to regularly test for lame delegations and a process for advising registrars of offending domains." These obviously could incur some costs on registrars, hence the need for consultation. If people have a view on the desirability of the above, they should make a submission to the DNC. DPF -- Blog: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz E-mail: david(a)farrar.com ICQ: 29964527 MSN: dpf666(a)hotmail.com