-----Original Message----- From: enum-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Jim Reid Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:55 PM To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: enum-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [enum-wg] Name "ripe" in the e164.arpa zone

On Jan 17, 2008, at 14:56, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

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The tools that transfer these zonelets rely on this extra piece of information in the TXT record for consistency checks. Similarly, AfriNIC, ARIN and APNIC also generate zones for their /8 allocations with records named "afrinic", "arin" and "apnic".

The e164.arpa zone does not really need this "ripe" record in it, since it is not shared among the registries in any way. However, because the e164.arpa zone is generated automatically from the RIPE Database by the same tools, it automatically receives this extra name. Currently, there is no way to stop the zone receiving this extra entry. But it has no negative effect on the zone or on ENUM operations.

Hmmm. This smells like a bug. Why are the DNS provisioning tools for e164.arpa generating data that isn't needed and inserting that data into the DNS?

Hmmm don't think I would define it as a bug as it is I believe intended behaviour.

I wonder what will happen if the ITU one day decides that "ripe.e164.arpa" should be delegated to someone....

Don't think this would cause a problem would it, as this is only a TXT record I think it could quite happily co-exist with some NS records. I do take your point though Jim and I'm sure if the community members feel strongly enough the NCC would consider looking into how difficult it would be to remove this record from the e164.arpa zone Brett (Speaking as a NON NCC person)