[For those who were at the last meeting: This is a hopefully more coherent version of what I was trying to say to the lameness panel. Maybe I was too shocked by almost killing two laptoys ...] We have had DNS "protocol police" efforts for much more than 10 years now, yet the proportion of misconfigured DNS servers and zones is rising by all policing standards. Yet the DNS keeps working for the parts that really matter. Yet the clueful people who care configure DNS correctly. Yet the others often do not. Nothing changes really despite a lot of effort put in and a lot of improvement in the (self)policing tools. Also the resources for policing are always lacking. As Ed Lewis has pointed out yet again, it is not about finding the problems but about reaching the people who can fix the problems, educate them and make them care. The amount of those resources is always underestimated by us engineers, even those who have (had to) organise such resources. So here is my proposal: Sell the police reports as a premium service! How about your friendly RIR providing an extra service of checking your reverse DNS tree for a small additional fee that covers the people resources needed to get the reports to you and follow up on them. This would serve several purposes: - It would pay for the extra resources needed. - It would make people care for the information and make it more likely they acted on it; after all they paid for it. - It would clearly establish if people cared enough about their DNS quality to do something about it. Daniel