[rpd] New Proposal: Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 13 Apr 2017, at 16:59, Derrick Harrison wrote:

> I support this.
>
> I would also add a DNS check when adding your authoritative server for 
> the
> zone.  If your DNS server is not configured to be authoritative for 
> the
> zone, then it must not be allowed to be added.


hi derrick,

that’s a good suggestion to the afrinic team!
that’s something that can be implemented without policy ie. as part of 
the checks and balances process of adding new domain-objects to the 
WHOIS   (otherwise read as:  implementation of existing policy).

*removal* of something, that’s already in WHOIS is trickier, as 
there’s no policy to allow removal, and afrinic isn’t allowed to 
delete objects, unless they are allocated/assigned to a member that is 
no longer active (ie. closed member), or part of some protracted legal 
process  (and we arenot going there, because that’s not part of this 
policy  :-))

so what we’re trying to do here - in policy - is give afrinic the ok, 
to go ahed and clean up.  more than that, we’re also *telling* afrinic 
that we, as a community, *want* to keep WHOIS clean, and this is how 
they should deal with one aspect of records in WHOIS that aren’t 
useful!

hth,
—n