Hi everybody On 18/9/04 01:16, "Brad Knowles" <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:
The problem in your phrase is "network administrator ensures.. Outgoing packets are routed via the appropiate provider", this usually means "source routing" (I can paint many scenarios with this meaning), a not so simple task and the person -network administrator- that will use this document (I hope) is not a very qualified technician, if she/he is qualified, she/he wouldn't need this document.
The issue is that there's not really anything we can do to fix this problem. If their administrators are not minimally competent, there is nothing that you can do with any written document that can help, and indeed you are likely to make a bad situation worse by overwhelming them with procedures and policies that they are unlikely to understand.
I think the principle needs to be kept as simple as possible, and the resulting document should be kept as short as possible.
Good point. Jim said the same, so we probably should cut or split the document. I think this is something that must be speak in the wg on Thursday. BTW, mi personal opinion is that "source routing" doesnt fit in the "simple" category. I know a lot more people that feel comfortable with DNS but doesnt know source routing (but this is my personal opinion).
Changes should be kept to a minimum, yes. However, I don't think we can assume that the Registrar will automatically screw up everything, every time. Simple sets of changes should be no problem, even if they need to be done more than once.
Not necesarily screw up, but sometimes delay. The spanish NIC used to have a waiting queue of one week. 1 change= 1 week delay, 2 changes=2 weeks delay. (I think they have improve now, but I can guarantee the same for all the NIC under the RIPE umbrella). Regards, Fernando -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Fernando Garcia - fgarcia@eurocomercial.es Eurocomercial Informática y Comunicaciones 91 435 96 87 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --