On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Peter Mott wrote:
Some folk may suggest change the RR's in the old name servers first then change delegation later. In the old days when technical clue and cooperation was alive and well this is a reasonable suggestion. Not these days!
This sounds more like an education issue than a technical one. It's long been my view that a limited amount of "compulsory education" for people when they sign up for a domain would be a good thing -- so that they know what their rights *and responsibilities* are, from both business and technical perspectives (*). Having said that, getting the .nz TTL changed is likely to be a lot easier than getting Domainz web pages changed, or for that matter, getting agreement to provide that education from the SRS participants. :-( -Martin (* That doesn't mean we have to teach them the whole nine yards of an IP stack, but they should be made aware that things cannot not happen instantaneously, and if they fail to give at least 2n hours notice (n=24) when they want changes, then things are going to be broken. To back that up, a code of conduct for ISPs should include being graceful about giving up customers; that we don't just chop them off the moment the delegation is removed. If they're paying for service then we should continue to provide it, if necessary by proxying for their new ISP.) - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog