Re: [dns-wg] Policy for Reverse DNS for End-User PAAddresses?

[Brad Knowles <]

At 11:03 PM +0100 2004-07-08, Jim Reid wrote:

>  Brad, please re-read what I said. I spoke about ISPs, not DSL
>  providers.
	At least in some countries, the DSL provider owns the reverse 
DNS, not the ISP.

>             If working reverse DNS is a very important consideration
>  for some customer, they can always find an ISP who can accommodate
>  that.
	Not all ISPs provide their own access.  In Belgium, I believe 
that Belgacom is the only DSL access provider that is allowed by law. 
Everyone else has to resell DSL access from Belgacom, and Belgacom 
owns the reverse DNS.

	For some countries, access is the only thing that is provided, 
and if you want anything beyond access, you have to go to some other 
provider outside of the country.  I have been told that this is the 
case throughout Poland.

>         This might of course mean choosing some other way of shifting
>  bits from what any monopoly DSL provider has to offer.
	To cablemodem, which is not available in all locales.  The only 
other high speed option is satellite, which also isn't universally 
available.

>                                                          So the customer
>  makes their choice and pays their money. This probably is a much more
>  effective way of getting results than writing up a BCP.
	Sometimes there aren't any viable choices.  Whatever the WG does 
(or does not do), I think this fundamental problem has to be 
acknowledged.

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