[Dnssec-deployment] dealing with broken TLD name servers

[David Conrad]

Jay,

On Jul 1, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Jay Daley wrote:

> On 2/07/2010, at 9:12 AM, Kim Davies wrote:
> 
>> In the mean time, when we run the tests internally, when we identify more serious brokenness we try to open up dialogue with the TLD on a one-on-one basis. Generally it gets resolves quickly, with the few chronic exceptions due to the fact we can't identify responsible people in the country that are in a position to fix the problem (i.e. the IANA contacts are all out of date).
> 
> That's seems at odds with what David wrote:

Not really.  We can (and do) notify folks that stuff is broken (when we can find valid contacts), but in many cases they don't/can't/won't fix it.  At that point, there isn't anything we can do.

>> Again, personally speaking, but I don't think you'd get much argument from ICANN's IANA staff -- we see (and get notified) of a stunning amount of brokenness at the TLD level and it can be ... distressing to not do something to fix it.
> 
> Is the difference between the two quotes above just one of measuring the level of seriousness?  Is there a lot of unfixed brokenness outside of the few chronic exceptions or not? 

Depends on your definition of brokenness.

Regards,
-drc