Re: Domain object template

[Francis Dupont <]

 In your previous mail you wrote:

   I have a couple of comments on this draft:
   
   > admin-c: The admin-c attribute contains the name or the  NIC

   I suggest to make mandatory that the administrative contact
   should reside on the site itself. Assume that people have outsourced
   the 'technical stuff' of their network, then it is likely that the
   technical contact is someone belonging to another company, and
   it might be difficult to get in touch with the holder of the 
   domain itself because the address/phone number is different.
   
=> the admin contact for domains is different from the admin
contact for networks. It is explicitely an administrative
person who can answer to questions about name property,
legal problems, etc... In fact I understand your problem
but I believe the change should be done in the network
template.

   > nserver: The  nserver  attribute  contains   the   list   of
   >          nameservers  for of this domain, primary first. The
   >          format  is  fully  qualified  domain  name  without
   >          trailing  "."  OR IP Address(es) of the nameserver.
   >          Only one server should be described per  line.   An
   >          example:
   > 
   >                  nserver: iraun1.IRA.UKA.DE
   > 
   >          Status: optional, multiple lines allowed
   
   Can we please drop the possibility of allowing IP numbers here?
   If one of the secondaries of your domain changes IP number, then
   he has the nearly impossible task of finding all these outdated
   references. Bind only allows hostnames here; I think it is a good
   idea to restrict the database in the same way.
   
=> IP numbers were allowed in the previous template then we need
a general agreement before dropping this possibility...

   Also, we might add 'the first nserver listed is the primary for the zone'
   
=> "primary first" is in the text.

   > dom-net: The dom-net attribute contains the list of IP  net-
   
   Can someone please explain why it is useful to record this?
   Seems that this info might get outdated quickly as it isn't
   related to the domain _name_.
   
=> there is a loose binding between names and addresses.
This attribute can be used if someone'd like to describe it.
This attribute has been made optional then you use it only
if you like.

Regards

Francis.Dupont@localhost