[Dnssec-deployment] TLD server requirements

[Jim Reid]

On 2 Jul 2010, at 05:16, Mark Andrews wrote:

> I'd like ICANN/IANA to work with all the TLD's to ensure that they
> are running nameservers that can properly answer the questions put
> to them.

First, define "properly answer" and get a consensus for that.

> The failure rate at the TLD level is way too high for what should
> be responsably managed servers.

Now define "failure rate" and get consensus for that too. For bonus  
points, do the same for "responsibly managed".

> Rather than excommunicate a TLD that IANA offer to take over the
> serving role until the TLD operator can provide servers that can
> do the job properly.

This is beyond silly. By this logic, every TLD operator could provide  
a broken DNS service, have IANA run it for them (as if) and then never  
have to take responsibility for their TLD's name servers ever again.  
Sweet. Except for IANA...

BTW, this thread needs to move somewhere else as it's got nothing to  
do with DNSSEC deployment.