In message <B568F14D-2D30-4501-BAC9-FB3B4125ADE8@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes:
On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists?
Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. If you do use them, then you are accepting a certain amount of ambiguity. Naked TLDs will increase that ambiguity and would recommend against their use, however there is no Internet Police to enforce such things (ICANN certainly isn't since ccTLDs can do whatever they like). I have significant doubt that an RFC will magically solve this problem (for any value of "this").
While there are no internet police, they are not supposed to exist and ICANN and the IAB can make statements to that effect. Similarly ICANN could direct Verisign to meet its RFC 1034 requirements by ensuring that regular checks of delegations be made to ensure they both sides of the zone cut are consistent and if not ensure that steps are take to make them constistent. ICANN and Verisign don't pick up the support cost caused by Verisign's and ultimately ICANN's failure to ensure these checks are done. The support costs falls to ISPs and nameserver vendors explaining that lookups are failing because the delegation in broken. Broken delegations that should have been caught and corrected by the regular checks. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org