Robert Martin-Legene wrote: >Depending on where you are, one might argue that certain ccTLD zones >really are more critical than any of the gTLD's. I don't think you'll be >able to phrase it very well.
RFC 2870 already speaks of being useful to "[o]ther major zone server operators (gTLDs, ccTLDs, major zones)", and RFC 3172 explicitly applies the full force of RFC 2870 to ARPA. I had these in mind when speaking of "similarly critical" zones. Whether there should be a formal requirement to apply RFC 2870 (or some weakened subset of it) to gTLDs is an interesting matter; the trend certainly seems to be in that direction. >Also, some TLD registries doesn't want anyone to have copies of the entire >zone, so they choose to run all servers themselves. That's something it would be nice to stop. DNS data is supposed to be public. (Yes, I know, I'm an idealist.) If a formal requirement for independent entities to be able to serve the zone prevents this kind of secrecy, that'd be a nice bonus. -zefram #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
