On 1/29/2014 4:18 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:27 AM, ARIN <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 24 January 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-197 >> Remove 7.2 Lame Delegations" as a Draft Policy. >> >> ARIN will actively identify lame DNS name server(s) for reverse address >> delegations associated with address blocks allocated, assigned or >> administered by ARIN. Upon identification of a lame delegation, ARIN shall >> attempt to contact the POC for that resource and resolve the issue. If, >> following due diligence, ARIN is unable to resolve the lame delegation, ARIN >> will update the Whois database records resulting in the removal of lame >> servers. > Howdy, > > Two decades of software improvements later, is there a *technical* > need for ARIN to take any action at all with respect to lame > delegations? Any stable DNS resolver has to deal with routine lame > delegations in the forward DNS anyway. > > On a related note, does anyone actually make use of section 7.1, > allowing an organization with less than a /16 to have ARIN handle all > its RDNS rather than delegating it? How does that work? What are the > mechanics involved in a registrant having ARIN set and change RDNS PTR > records for him? > > I'm wondering if there's a good reason to keep any part of section 7 at all. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > It would be helpful for this discussion if ARIN staff could produce a brief statement on the current state of how this section has been implemented within ARIN's operational procedures. I assume some of this will come later with the staff assessment, but a limited response might be helpful for the community to understand how this change would effect ARIN's current operational procedures.
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