<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Looking from the standpoint of how much trouble redirection pause:-<br><br>- Spam (records are synthesized, hence would have been invalid records check out)<br>- Ambiguous error reporting to users<br>- Names with illegal Characters are allowed through, et al<br><br>I believe this makes for plausible reason to rescind these, but understanding how much work maybe involved (rewriting DNS standards e.t.c), i would suggest a Best practice be used in place of prohibition this for the moment.<br><br>Regards,<br>Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329<br>
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the Problem.<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 11/13/09, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <i><paulos@sdnp.org.mw></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos@sdnp.org.mw><br>Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Re: [afnog] "What DNS Is Not"<br>To: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, "Afnog Mailing List" <afnog@afnog.org>, africann@afrinic.net<br>Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:38 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>The worries and concerns on DNS redirection and/or tricks compounded by the "confusion <br>and mixing of issues" as stated here highlight the difficulty in clarifying this issue <br>currently causing difficulties for the ccNSO with an ICANN Board resolution made in <br>Sydney in June 2009 as:<br><br>"Resolved (2009.06.26.21), the (ICANN) Board requests that the ccNSO provide a report
on <br>mechanisms that could be employed to ensure that redirection and synthesis at the top <br>level is effectively prohibited", <br>see <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun09.htm" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun09.htm</a><br>and <a href="http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-15sep09-en.pdf" target="_blank">http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/minutes-council-15sep09-en.pdf</a><br><br>Does anyone have any suggestions on such mechanisms that are being sought here?<br><br>The DNS standards have these technically enabled, should they then be prohibited?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Paulos<br>======================<br>Dr Paulos B Nyirenda<br>NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD<br><a href="http://www.registrar.mw" target="_blank">http://www.registrar.mw</a><br><br><br><br>On 13 Nov 2009 at 11:08, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:<br><br>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:39:14PM +0300,<br>> Gerald Begumisa
<<a ymailto="mailto:gbegumisa@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=gbegumisa@gmail.com">gbegumisa@gmail.com</a>> wrote <br>> a message of 18 lines which said:<br>> <br>> > This was an interesting read:<br>> <br>> Yes, interesting but confused, mixing different issues (DNS tricks for<br>> CDNs and ISP resolvers lying for money). The only common issue is the<br>> fact that all these things violate the rule of data consistency (every<br>> DNS request everywhere in the world should give the same result). But,<br>> apart from that, they are too different, IMHO, to be discussed in the<br>> same paper.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> afnog mailing list<br>> <a href="http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog" target="_blank">http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a
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