Re: [dns-wg] Delegation checking policy/procedure at ARIN

[Jim Reid <]

>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@localhost writes:

    >> Ed Lewis will be giving a presentation at the WG next week on
    >> ARIN's proposals for checking DNS delegations. I've passed a
    >> copy of his slides to RIPE NCC for their comments. [This could
    >> well turn out to be a subject that RIRs might want to
    >> co-ordinate or establish a commpn policy.] The slides probably
    >> won't be on the RIPE web site until after WG, so apologies that
    >> the detail isn't available yet.

    Brad> 	Specifically, I was thinking about a distributed
    Brad> collection script and a centralized checking facility, where
    Brad> results could be posted to the appropriate mailing lists and
    Brad> newsgroups, in much the same way as the reports made by Rob
    Brad> Thomas to the NANOG mailing list (especially his "lame
    Brad> delegation" report at <http://www.cymru.com/DNS/lame.html>).

I encourage you (and others) to expand on these thoughts on the
list. Or if you'd prefer, bring this to the WG at a future RIPE
meeting.

    Brad> 	Perhaps this is something that could be done in
    Brad> conjunction with the RIRs?  Could we all pool our resources?
    Brad> Perhaps we can talk to Rob as well?

These are all good ideas. In fact the RIRs are mumbling about having a
common policy on this. We should know more after Ed's presentation and
the panel session in Barcelona next week. My hope is there will be
enough commitment for the subject to become a work item for the WG.
This subject is going to become more important and there's a gap here
that will need to be filled, possibly soon. IMO the WG is an ideal
forum for the discussion to take place because of the combination of
operational, policy and standards issues that are involved.