Re: [enum-wg] Name "ripe" in the e164.arpa zone

[Jim Reid jim@localhost]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 14:56, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> The tools that transfer these zonelets rely on this extra piece of
> information in the TXT record for consistency checks. Similarly,
> AfriNIC, ARIN and APNIC also generate zones for their /8 allocations
> with records named "afrinic", "arin" and "apnic".
>
> The e164.arpa zone does not really need this "ripe" record in it,  
> since
> it is not shared among the registries in any way. However, because the
> e164.arpa zone is generated automatically from the RIPE Database by  
> the
> same tools, it automatically receives this extra name. Currently,  
> there
> is no way to stop the zone receiving this extra entry. But it has no
> negative effect on the zone or on ENUM operations.
Hmmm. This smells like a bug. Why are the DNS provisioning tools for  
e164.arpa generating data that isn't needed and inserting that data  
into the DNS? I wonder what will happen if the ITU one day decides  
that "ripe.e164.arpa" should be delegated to someone....