Is this an InternetNZ committee question or are you asking as a member of the development team?
Should the SRS test given nameservers for a name for authorativeness at submission (ie, check for lame delegations), and if so, should it require all provided nameservers to give authorative answers, or a minimum number (suggest please :) ). If it does perform such checks, how often should it repeat them?
[1] Registrar should be able to register a name without specifying any name servers [2] Registry should require 2 or more name servers to be specified before including in a zone build [3] No tests for auth servers need to be completed by the registry at delegation time [4] Registrars may or may not include an auth test at registration time (as domainz registrar does today) In the interests of a healthy dns ... Registry may want to have a scheduled task that checks that at least one name server is responding for each zone it delegates. If a particular domain is delegated for for more than x days without an auth answer, then they can remove it from the zone build and notify the registrar who will be required to complete a transaction with the registry to re-include it in the next zone build. This is of course entirely automated :-) Lets not continue to confuse the business of name registration and name delegation. Checking for auth is not a useful tool at name registration time. My point [2] above is common sense, and not specified in any RFC. ICANN registries will in fact delegate a name to only one name server if that is all that is entered into the registry by a registrar. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney -/- - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog