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

[Patrik Fältström <]

On måndag, maj 5, 2003, at 21:55 Europe/Stockholm, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	Specifically, I was thinking about a distributed collection script 
> and a centralized checking facility, where results could be posted to 
> the appropriate mailing lists and newsgroups, in much the same way as 
> the reports made by Rob Thomas to the NANOG mailing list (especially 
> his "lame delegation" report at <http://www.cymru.com/DNS/lame.html>).
At the meeting in Barcelona I will describe my findings with my tool 
(http://dnscheck.paf.se/) which uses the dns verification script which 
runs on http://paf.se/domain/. You can also download the script (perl) 
and use yourself, under a BSD like license.

I am sorry for being so late with the statistics collections I am now 
finally ready with, after working on this for 4 years or so...

Anyway, the meta-questions I have found need some sort of answers are:

  - What is a proper set of requirements a registry set on operations
    of a child zone? (One can argue the registry should not care, BUT,
    in reality they do. The answer can be "do not care", but then it
    should be said very loud.)

  - What is a proper set of requirements one can set on a DNS operator,
    i.e. one which run DNS for a zone, a hosting service? Yes, they can
    differ, and should differ as for example tld for "se" should have
    different requirements than the local butcher shop (maybe).
    I at least see this list of "proper dns" is different from the
    _requirements_ a registry set.

  - Is the requirements different between in-addr.arpa delegations from
    the normal {cc,g}TLD delegations? If so, why?

Note, I am really trying hard to only talk about technical things. No 
policy issues. Yes, a policy is that some technical hoops need to be 
passed, but, the technical requirements themselves is what I want to 
discuss.

More at the DNS meeting.

    paf