Edward Lewis wrote:
> It's true that the RIR's don't have to worry about glue maintenance,
> don't fret - the registrants already do. ;) The glue is somewhere...
to repeat my favorite song: if it isn't there, it's not glue.
> I don't mean to push for the RIR's to maintain glue, just to point
> out that if they do, it isn't "new pain" just "moved pain." ;)
Agreed, maintenance pain vs. operational pain (load).
> The downside of the RIR's not maintaining glue is an arguable
> (arguable) performance hit of having an iterating name server chase
> down so many name server addresses (independent of old BIND
> problems). Also, because of old BIND, .net servers (where most of
> the /8 in-addr name servers are) have to give out "extra glue"
> because old BIND got "lost" on the way. ("Old" BIND.)
Maybe, but then we're touching another contentious issue, which is general
naming recommendations for name servers. That can not to be opened
in this draft.
-Peter
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