[dns-wg] Progress with DNS Quality, Also: Lameness

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

[For those who were at the last meeting: This is a 
hopefully more coherent version of what I was trying
to say to the lameness panel. Maybe I was too shocked
by almost killing two laptoys ...]

We have had DNS "protocol police" efforts for much more
than 10 years now, yet the proportion of misconfigured
DNS servers and zones is rising by all policing standards.
Yet the DNS keeps working for the parts that really matter.
Yet the clueful people who care configure DNS correctly.
Yet the others often do not. 
Nothing changes really despite a lot of effort put in and
a lot of improvement in the (self)policing tools.

Also the resources for policing are always lacking.
As Ed Lewis has pointed out yet again, it is not about
finding the problems but about reaching the people 
who can fix the problems, educate them and make them
care. The amount of those resources is always underestimated
by us engineers, even those who have (had to) organise
such resources.

So here is my proposal:

	Sell the police reports as a premium service!

How about your friendly RIR providing an extra service 
of checking your reverse DNS tree for a small additional
fee that covers the people resources needed to get the
reports to you and follow up on them. 

This would serve several purposes:

- It would pay for the extra resources needed.
- It would make people care for the information and 
  make it more likely they acted on it; after all they
  paid for it.
- It would clearly establish if people cared enough about
  their DNS quality to do something about it.

Daniel