<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Thanks Mark</div><div><br></div><div>Do you really think it practical to impose policy on registrants, ie the garden variety name holder, for the running of a DNS fully compliant with the RFCs?</div><div><br></div><div>If they don't come that way out of the box (and it's been a while since I had a close look at how bind unpacks itself, not to mention the other commercial variants) - most will find it extremely challenging.</div><div><br></div><div>That said - many hosting companies do it for their customers, what does the list think about Mark's suggestion of being required to be complaint with the RFCs to register a domain name?</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect if that were the case people would head off to *.whatever under the new gTLDs or come up with even stupider *.com names just to avoid compliance with .au rules. And it would increase the price paid for .au. I'd prefer to see a stronger role from auDA, ausnog, Comms Alliance, IIA in education and best practice encouragement.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Narelle</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Mark Andrews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marka@isc.org" target="_blank">marka@isc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">auDA are missing a fundamental policy.<br>
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“Registrants must use RFC Compliant nameservers” should have been the<br>
1st policy.<br>
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At the moment over half the server listed for .au domains do not comply<br>
with the DNS RFC’s leading in some cases to interoperability issues with<br>
recursive servers. There is no penalty for deploying broken nameservers.<br>
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Every time resolvers try to do something “new” you hit broken servers that<br>
fail to handle that “new” thing despite the RFC’s having will defined<br>
behaviours specified.<br>
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Where “new" can be as little as sending a query type that isn’t a A<br>
record query. Yes, STD 13, said what to do. The RFC that make up STD 13<br>
were published in 1987.<br>
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Fix the basics before worrying about opening up the namespace.<br>
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Mark<br>
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