[address-policy-wg] Policy Change Request - Allow address allocations for anycast DNS operation
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Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet
woeber at cc.univie.ac.at
Tue Jun 15 15:40:27 CEST 2004
Hi Pekka! The next paragraph is where I strongly start to disagree: > (2) this proposal takes no stance on who can request a block of >addresses like this for his DNS servers? Correct, and this is the way it should be! If someone wants to start deploying a particular _technology_ for her service, then there should be NO discussion about size, "importance", level in a hierarchy and similar things. > People could add up servers >and addresses for them just for the purposes of getting nice PI >prefix(es) for their DNS servers. Just like they can buy/rent cheap end systems today to be configured on a particular network to get IPv4 addresses ;-) > Wouldn't it be nice, never having >to renumber your DNS server addresses in different registries etc. Sure :-) And? >This is short-sighted. We should restrict this approach to specific >class of DNS servers, like ccTLDs or the like -- if that's the class >of DNS servers where we'd intend do something like this. This would get us (i.e. the NCC) into deep trouble: without intending to pick at a particular Zone - just to make a point - why would eg. VT. or MD. be eligible, but AC.UK. (or AC.AT. for that matter) or google.com or 3.4.E164.ARPA. would not?! >-- >Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the >Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." >Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings We just made this mistake too often already (looking at a particular application, at a particular transmission technology[1], and the like, and hard-wiring that into resource distribution policy). The only aspect that I would accept here is characteristics or rather limitations of the DNS _technology_ and _protocols_ (and maybe others), but NOT what type of service it is used for! Wilfried. [1] like 24/8 and DSL being treated as "dial-up" when in reality (for a certain period in time) the _business model_ would have been interesting to look at, and not the technology or application...
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