On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:16:02PM +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
> IMO, it might be OK for IANA to tell a TLD that they have a problem
> with a broken server or to discourage broken servers being added to
> the delegation. But that's all. It should be up to the TLD to
> decide what to do about the fault.

OK. However this approach ignores the real-world observations that lame 
delegations produce an inordinate load on the parent name servers,
apparently due to broken resolver implementation(s).
 
I have seen this happen a number of times. The resulting query loop
has comprised up to 80% of the parent server query traffic.
-- 
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
Mark Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  http://mark.foster.cc/

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