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Re: NSI policy on lame delagations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Nov 22 01:49:56 1998

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 04:40:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
Cc: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>, nanog@merit.edu

>> there should be no lame delegations.
> Agreed.  However, testing sometime after registration (as they seem to be
> doing) is much more user friendly than testing before registration.

depends to which user you are trying to be friendly.  there is a clear
responsibility to the internet at large.

there should be no lame delegations.

> The reason I say this is that some folks automatically reload their
> nameservers which have tens of thousands of domain names once a day and
> have clients that want domains registered on the same day they request
> them.  (queuing is not an option.)

if they intend to serve those clients, as opposed to pretending to do so,
then they should load thier servers when they are pretending to do so.

randy

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