[dns-wg] [Fwd: [centr-fm] Re: IANA TLD delegation issue]

Olivier, can you please, if not done so earlier, please send this for  
publication as an I-D.

     Patrik

On Jun 6, 2005, at 15:39, Kim Davies wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Olivier Guillard of AFNIC has described in the attached document  
> the details of their attempts to redelegate their domains. It is a  
> useful summary of the issue as they experienced it.
>
> kim
> -- 
> Kim Davies, Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries
> Avenue Louise 327, B-1050 Brussels; Tel. +32 2 627 5550
>
> From: Olivier Guillard / AFNIC <Olivier.Guillard at nic.fr>
> Date: June 6, 2005 14:53:21 GMT+02:00
> To: Marcel Schneider <schneide at switch.ch>
> Cc: fm at centr.org
> Subject: [centr-fm] Re: [centr-ga] FWD: IANA TLD delegation issue
>
>
> Marcel and colleagues,
>
> as the AFNIC multinamming story with IANA was quoted
> within exchanges, we felt necessary to provide the
> community with a report to clarify what happened.
>
> Find it here included.
>
> As there is no standard format to communicate over
> the TLD community this kind of reports, I have
> choosen the RFC one. It is not designed for this
> kind of communications, but I felt that it was the
> less unappropriate to use (-> it does exist and it
> is known by ccTLDs).
>
> This is a raw draft: I would higly appreciate
> *ANY* suggestions and inputs.
>
> This issue will be discussed over the next CENTR GA
> in Trondheim:
> http://www.centr.org/docs/2005/05/centr-ga26-agenda.pdf
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> le vendredi 13 mai à 15 H 58 , Marcel Schneider a ecrit :
>
>> Since this is a real technical concern to us all. Propose
>> we ask IANA to clarify.
>>
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>> ------- Forwarded Message
>>
>> Date:    Fri, 13 May 2005 14:50:00 +0100
>> From:    Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com>
>> To:      dns-wg at ripe.net
>> Subject: [dns-wg] IANA TLD delegation issue
>>
>> Here is a copy of the mail that has just been sent to IANA in  
>> followup
>> to the discussion during last week's RIPE meeting. My thanks to those
>> who have helped draft this message so promptly. I will keep the WG
>> informed of developments.
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> This note follows a discussion at the DNS Working Group during last
>> week's RIPE meeting. Doug was unable to take part in this discussion
>> because he was called away early. Therefore we have sent you this
>> message so that we can clear up any possible misunderstandings and
>> hopefully avoid invoking more formal mechanisms.
>>
>> The RIPE DNS Working Group is concerned about some aspects of the
>> current practice regarding IANA TLD operations. In particular the
>> problems encountered by AFNIC last month are unsettling.
>>
>> It is our understanding that IANA has recently stopped accepting
>> certain updates to the DNS root zone. The current practice now  
>> appears
>> to require each particular network address used in glue address  
>> RRs to
>> have one unique DNS name. This requirement is new: multiple names
>> already exist in the root zone for some name server addresses. There
>> is no technical reason in the DNS protocols preventing this practice.
>>
>> Important technical and operational goals can require TLD  
>> operators to
>> use different names for the same address. The most obvious of  
>> these is
>> more efficient name compression to make room for additional data in
>> responses. Multiple names for the same address can reduce the amount
>> of co-ordination required in case of name server address changes.
>>
>> We do not understand why this requirement has been introduced or the
>> process by which it was agreed. The RIPE DNS Working Group is
>> disappointed that this change appears to have been carried out by  
>> IANA
>> without prior consultation or discussion. We would like to know
>> rationale for this policy and the mechanism which led to its
>> introduction. We'd appreciate any clarifications from you before  
>> Friday,
>> May 20th.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> .....
>> chairs RIPE DNS WG
>>
>>
>> ------- End of Forwarded Message
>>
>
> -- 
> Olivier
>
> <draft-guillard-multi-naming.txt>
> <draft-guillard-multi-naming.html>
>