RV: [dns-wg] DNS migration draft

At 12:41 AM +0200 2004-09-18, Fernando Garcia wrote:

>  I was not only thinking about DNS but all the other servers that must be
>  migrated AND this document should not be BIND centered (though the examples
>  use bind). I'm not sure about how the DNS server for Windows work, but let
>  me be a little suspicious.

	Fair enough.

>  The problem in your phrase is "network administrator ensures.. Outgoing
>  packets are routed via the appropiate provider", this usually means "source
>  routing" (I can paint many scenarios with this meaning), a not so simple
>  task and the person -network administrator- that will use this document (I
>  hope) is not a very qualified technician, if she/he is qualified, she/he
>  wouldn't need this document.

	The issue is that there's not really anything we can do to fix 
this problem.  If their administrators are not minimally competent, 
there is nothing that you can do with any written document that can 
help, and indeed you are likely to make a bad situation worse by 
overwhelming them with procedures and policies that they are unlikely 
to understand.

	I think the principle needs to be kept as simple as possible, and 
the resulting document should be kept as short as possible.

>>  I think you have the problem of multiple changes at the registrar
>>  no matter what.
>
>  Its a problem, so the less changes, the better. Do you agree with this
>  statement?

	Changes should be kept to a minimum, yes.  However, I don't think 
we can assume that the Registrar will automatically screw up 
everything, every time.  Simple sets of changes should be no problem, 
even if they need to be done more than once.

	If we assumed that the Registrar would screw up everything, every 
time, then the entire DNS would collapse.

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