This is the action point from RIPE-28 thats in the final stage. I will be presenting this at RIPE-31 this Thursday. So any comments and suggestions will be looked at if they arrive before Thursday.
In general, the text is ok, though I think a more detailed text covering DNS is really needed. However, that can be left for some next iteration. Minor changes I would suggest here follow:
To have a document for LIR:s to use for their customers instead of a number of RFC:s.
I would add: "This document should be taken as a brief DNS reminder. For thorough understanding, reading RFC's and books, listed at the end of this document, is highly recommended".
SOA The address in this field must be a valid e-mail address to the administrator for the DNS. It's also good practise to have role address instead of personal, ie root.. admin.. hostmaster.. (when domain-administrator is leaving your company, you only change the alias for role address).
I would add: "The 'at' ('@') sign of the email address should be replaced by a dot, e.g. instead of <hostmaster@foo.bar.com>, the address should be specified as hostmaster.foo.bar.com, as given in the following example."
MX When pointing a domain to a mailserver/hostname, do not forget to add a record ( A ) for this.
I would add: "only if the hostname is within the zone (see below)".
Additional reading and references:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsind-classless- inaddr-04.txt ( For reverse delegation methods for blocks smaller than /24, 256 addresses )
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