Re: Comment Sought on DNS Root Zone Glue Policy

[Olivier.Guillard@xxxxxx]

 This is a comment from IANA WG: http://ianawg.ccnso.org to the
 IANA consultation "Comment Sought on DNS Root Zone Glue Policy":
 http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-3-05dec06.htm
 
 The IANA WG note that 85 % of the Domain Name Servers in the
 root zone file serve only one domain.
 
 It's also our knowledge that the number of operations that
 IANA has to execute on DNS that serve more than one
 domain is limitated (around 5 per year).
 
 It is however highligted that the current process could
 lead to deadlocks. In extreme cases demands could be very
 long (up to several months) and time consumming to honour
 for IANA. Such situations are of course painfull for the
 NS operator waiting for the modification to be done.
 
 IANA proposes different scenarii to fix the current procedure:
 http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-3-05dec06.htm
 
 Considering the metrics, the IANA WG supports the implementation
 of this one:
 
 "Allow changes with a mandatory advisement and wait period. Once the
 acceptance criteria is met, if it has not been accepted by 100% of
 affected parties, IANA can notify all administrative and technical
 contacts of the nature of the change and give them a fixed time
 (e.g. 30 days) to make necessary alterations before changes are made
 to the root zone."
 
 This scenario seem to us to be a good compromise between dealing
 efficiently with the few extreme cases, without changing to much
 the current situation, which doesn't seem to us to be relevant or
 necessary at this stage.
 
 --
 Olivier Guillard
 IANA WG Chair