Peter Mott wrote:
I think it's reasonable for Internet users to expect that data provided for the sole purpose of permitting other users to access their web pages or send them email is used for that purpose, and not for making them targets of unsolicited marketing material or cold-calling salespeople. Don't you?
I do not support the use of information for unlawful or unethical purposes. But thats not the issue I raise.
Why create a policy and therefore an administrative structure to police it when nobody has identified either a technical or privacy problem with the present policy or having ns99.waikato.ac.nz allow zone transfers to any host on the Internet.
Eventually (likely sometime in 2000) ns99.waikato.ac.nz won't be there any more, principally due to Waikato finally getting out of the DNS business completely, and passing the baton to Domainz. Most of us thinking about this stuff did not have much to do with how Waikato was set up and run, and all the players who made these decisions have now moved on. John Houlker to Telecom International, Arron Scott to Netgate, Rex off to Adelaide etc etc. Unrestricted zone transfers COULD be a problem because... SPAM is a concern. Transfer of zone information offshore is another. On-Sale of zone information offshore is another. Use of information for direct marketing purposes is another.. There are several organisations we are aware of that don't run authoritative secondaries, but do do zone transfers, so what do they use the information for? An example would be providing a "name availability tool" as part of a registry business. This seems a reasonable use and we would hardly wish to discourage it. Russell Street's example of Auckland Uni providing an internal secondary, thus providing faster lookup within the Uni WAN, and preserving precious external bandwidth, is an example we'd like to promote and support. If you don't agree with any restrictions on zone transfers at all, and want the current situation to continue, now is the time to speak. Rgds Roger De Salis
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