Brad Knowles wrote:
Well, at least for those zones that are delegated from the RIPE NCC, warnings could be sent to the delegees, and if those warnings are not acted on and the problem solved (within a specified period of time), then the delegation could be removed -- no information is better than bad information.
the zones delegated by the RIPE NCC almost all are zones within the IN-ADDR.ARPA tree. My personal opinion is that there's not much educational gain by revoking such delegations. Let's take this as a suggestion that the WG could discuss operational standards for this kind of zones and encourage monitoring (and notifying).
well as the owners of the problem servers, and requests could be made to the root server operators to de-list the problematical servers, or to otherwise request that they enforce the policies.
Brad, please. The root server operators currently are not in charge of ``delisting the problematical servers''. It's even hard enough to have a TLD delegation changed if you are the officially registered TLD contact (which is, of course, not a fault of the root NS operators).
If there aren't any complaint procedures to request this kind of action, and/or policies that the TLD zone administrators and TLD server operators are required to follow, then I would suggest that we could help create them and then work to get them implemented.
-Peter