On Friday 09 July 2004 20:08, Jørgen Elgaard Larsen wrote:
So until recently, although unintentional, RIPE already demanded for ISPs to provide reverse DNS :-)
ISP's/LIR's should be required to provide reverse DNS. Even if it's just a generic reverse such as adsl-xx-xx.isp.com
Peter Koch also wrote:
Yes, like privacy issues.
Actually, draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-05.txt mentions that privacy issues are irrelevant for this, since the information is already partially accessible through whois.
No privacy issues aren't irrelevant. When I got my IP range at home, I wasn't informed that my details could potentially appear in a public registry - they didn't in the end, although there is an inetnum for my range it's fully admin'd by my ISP and doesn't contain any of my details. Privacy issues must be addressed, and there is actually no reason why the end user's details need to be associated with the inetnum. Jon