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There seems to be some misunderstanding about the nature of "delegation"
in the procedures Neustar envisions, and even in the DOC contact.
There is too much data on the Internet to centralize it. This is why we
use the DNS instead of hosts.txt. When ISI delegated Fitchburg.WI.US to
me, I take over the responsility for data in that zone, by maintaining
it myself, and by delegating futher subzones.
Neustar indicates that we must, according to the DOC contract (which I
have not read), provide to Neustar registration data for all the zones
under the delegated zone. This is preposterous. It's unlikely their
systems can scale to serve all that data. There could be thousands of
domain names for individuals just in my city of 20,000 residents.
If they have all that data, why do they need a delegated manager?
Indeed, if we are not "sufficiently responsive" to requests for service
in our delegated zones, they threaten that they will revoke the
delegation unilaterally.
I see no technical need for Neustar to have access to any registration
data in any delegated zone. There is no reason to develop a way to
transfer that data to Neustart. There is no reason to open our zones to
Neustar for zone transfers. And finally, there is certainly no reason
for registrants in delegated zone or delegated managers to pay Neustar a
fee for anything. By analogy, I don't pay Network Solutions/Versign for
delegations under Arnold.com! (Neustar can register names at the second
level to earn money.)
I do recognized the need for a process to allow a local government or
other RFC 1480 organization (library, school, etc.) to recover control
of their domain from a delegated manager who is profiteering from it or
providing inadequate service. However, this process must not be
initiated by Neustar. It must be initiated only by a zone's proper
constituents. Having Neustar be able to revoke a zone leaves us open to
abuse of power by Neustar.
I also see a legitimate role for Neustar to maintain the delegation
data, so other name servers can find our name servers, and so
prospective registrants can find our administrative contact addresses.
The text file now on line, corrected with up-to-date data from time to
time, serves this need.
(People can also find me through http://Fitchburg.WI.US and through
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope other delegated managers do the
same. I appreciate the idea, from this list, of pointing a wildcard
Address record for *.Fitchburg.WI.US at Fitchburg.WI.US's IP address, so
prospective registrants can easily determine if a domain is available.)
I would be interested in hearing if other delegated managers agree that
this is a flaw in the DOC/Neustar design.
Regards,
"Steve" Stephen L. Arnold, Ph.D., President, Arnold Consulting, Inc.
Address 2530 Targhee Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53711-5491 U.S.A.
Telephone +1 608 278 7700 Facsimile +1 608 278 7701
Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://WWW.Arnold.com
Arnold� is a registered trademark and service mark of Arnold Consulting, Inc.
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