Re: [DNSOP] Asking TLD's to perform checks.

[Mark Andrews <[e-mail]>]

In message <[e-mail]>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 03:25:11PM +0100,
>  Shane Kerr <[e-mail]> wrote 
>  a message of 49 lines which said:
> 
> > My guess is that part of the resistance is because you are going to
> > be asking people to spend money on something that does not provide
> > them or their customers any (direct) benefits. Further, it breaks
> > the registry-registrar model in some cases, where registries are
> > kept away from registrants by a 1.6 km-high wall.
> 
> +1 && +1
> 
> We at AFNIC have a long experience here since, during many years, we
> requested successful technical checks before registering a domain (at
> this time, there was no registration without delegation). It annoyed
> people a lot and we got a reputation of pain-in-the-ass stupid french
> people, always insisting on local and anti-american requirments (see
> <http://www.circleid.com/posts/afnic_dns_server_redelegation/> for a
> good example).
> 
> I'm not eager to try it again, unless people pledge to support us
> during flames on social networks.

Part of writing the I-D and trying to consensus through DNSOP rather
than going as a I-S is to provide the a backstop for registries
that check.  The more registries that check the better for everyone.
Support in numbers.


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