[AusNOG] auDA Policy Review Panel - Public Forums

[Mark Andrews]

auDA are missing a fundamental policy.

“Registrants must use RFC Compliant nameservers” should have been the
1st policy.

At the moment over half the server listed for .au domains do not comply
with the DNS RFC’s leading in some cases to interoperability issues with
recursive servers. There is no penalty for deploying broken nameservers.

Every time resolvers try to do something “new” you hit broken servers that
fail to handle that “new” thing despite the RFC’s having will defined
behaviours specified.

Where “new" can be as little as sending a query type that isn’t a A
record query. Yes, STD 13, said what to do.  The RFC that make up STD 13
were published in 1987.

Fix the basics before worrying about opening up the namespace.

Mark

> On 12 Feb 2018, at 3:30 pm, Seamus Ryan <seamus at plur.com.au> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> And lets face it, auDA doesn't have a great track record when it comes to these industry submissions. 
> 
> Suggestions are ignored, issues raised are noted and promptly overruled, basically making the entire process pointless. auDA will look after auDA, any changes to policy etc are only ever made if it benefits auDA.
> 
> 
> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Christopher Hawker <me at chrishawker.com.au>
> Sent: Monday, 12 February 2018 2:26:01 PM
> To: Narelle; ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] auDA Policy Review Panel - Public Forums
>  
> In all fairness Narelle, if you perhaps e-mailed from an official auDA e-mail address (instead of a free GMail address), you may have received a few more replies.
> 
> CH.
> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Narelle <narellec at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 2:09:47 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] auDA Policy Review Panel - Public Forums
>  
> 
> I have to admit I'm fairly surprised that no-one has any comments about the impending changes to the Australian system of domain names...
> 
> I suppose when customers start asking/complaining about weird new characters under .au or missing <com|net|org|edu|id|asn|gov> and land in your helpdesk queues you'll do something...
> 
> still happy to talk
> 
> 
> Narelle
> 
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All
> auDA has published an issues paper on behalf of the Policy Review Panel that is recommending the set of policies that should apply to the introduction of direct registrations under .au
> 
> Should you be interested in attending or making a submission (deadline 4 March) you should register for the upcoming forums:
> https://auda.org.au/policies/panels-and-committees/2017-policy-review-panel/registrant-policy-issues-paper/
> 
> I suggest you look at the various issues raised such as:
> - should we introduce internationalised domain names under .au?
> - should there be specific reserved words withheld from .au?
> - should any existing 2LDs be retired? Should there be more?
> - should there be priority for existing .au domain name holders?
> - what should the cut off dates be for any priority?
> - ???
> 
> This will probably have an impact on your systems and on your customers, so you may wish to express a view, or to encourage them to express their views.
> 
> best regards
> 
> 
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> 
> Narelle
> narellec at gmail.com
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