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

On 14 May, Jim Reid wrote:
| >>>>> "JFC" == JFC (Jefsey) Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> writes:
| 
|     JFC> When I cannot register a ".fr" or a ".tp" name because of the
|     JFC> retsrictions imposed by their NICs I am upset. I would prefer
|     JFC> - and I would be gratefull - if they told me what is wrong I
|     JFC> could correct when I want, but securing the DN in the
|     JFC> meanwhile?
| 
| This is really something to discuss with the registry concerned. There
| should be some forum where its customers -- or stakeholders -- can
| influence policy. However registries don't usually run DNS consultancy
| businesses, so there will be limits on what they can and cannot do.
| It's hard to see where chatty help messages for the DNS-clueless would
| stop and DNS consulting starts: how much help and advice is "enough"?
| And how much of that consultancy can a registry afford to do when it's
| only getting a few bucks for the registration?

==> The registry concerned for instance does provide a public tool
that gives information _verbose enough_ to understand what is being
tested and what is going wrong if DNS configuration is deemed bad
(according to DNS RFCs, BCP documents and the registry's
policy). As Jim said it below, the new version of the same tool will
be presented at the DNS-wg session and everybody can try
(http://zonecheck.afnic.fr/v2/) and give us (zonecheck at afnic.fr)
feedback whether something is missing or not clear enough.

| 
|     JFC> Example: when the nameserver is on the same machine as the
|     JFC> site, I never understood why I would need two name servers.
| 
| Read section 3.3 of RFC2182. In fact, read the whole RFC.
| 
|     JFC> I would be really interested if Patrick's work permitted
|     JFC> that: to tell me what may be wrong in my files and to teach
|     JFC> me to correcty right them?
| 
| Well, someone from AFNIC will be talking about their new delegation
| checking tools and processes at the WG tomorrow. The presentation
| should be on the RIPE web site by early next week at the latest.
| 
| I'm hoping the WG will use tomorrow's session on delegation checking
| to work on this topic: perhaps produce a BCP or something like that. If
| this gets under way, it would be useful to get contributions on things
| like the nature of error messages and so on.

==> Hope so.

Mohsen.