In message <05a801c3446e$cb07c040$0a21970a(a)norris>, "Bruce Fitzsimons" writes:

Can anyone shed any light on why the useful, but not-that-well-known page at:

http://webpages.netlink.co.nz/~mark/netsites-changes.html

is off line? Who is the NZOC?

NZOC == New Zealand (DNS) Oversight Committee, which is the committee in InternetNZ which "oversees" the Domain Name Commissioner's office. I wasn't aware that they were (still) conducting a review (again), and Mark's "changes" list seems (at first glance) to be consistent with the existing zone transfer policies. I know that Mark updated those scripts recently ('cause I prompted him to do so, since some links were out of date including the ones for whois) -- maybe it just picked up a copy of a "in progress" version of the script generating the changes file?

I guess lots of people doing the same thing would be bad, but this page has been around for yonks.

As I understand it, that was the main reason (in an earlier interation of setting zone transfer restrictions) for allowing Mark's scripts to keep going -- it was one point where people could look for changes, rather than everyone doing their own zone transfers. Ewen