Re: [dnsext] Short introduction to zone cuts?

On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> 
> In message <946E9EC4-9872-4A98-BCEB-3CD7420929A1@vpnc.org>, Paul Hoffman writes
> :
>> Over on the dns-operations list, the issue of zone cuts has come up, and even
>> normally-careful people have gotten it wrong. Is there a readable introducti
>> on to zone cuts and how they affect zone operators? If not, someone should re
>> ally consider writing a two-page informational RFC on the subject and have it
>> reviewed here (even if it is after this WG shuts down) before publication. I
>> suspect that such an RFC will be more valuable to the Internet than many of 
>> the ones we have done here.
>> 
>> --Paul Hoffman
> 
> RFC 1034 say all you need to say for zone operators about NS record.

As we have seen, the text in RFC 1034 has not been sufficient to prevent errors. A clearly-written document might help prevent errors. Some of us would prefer to prevent errors rather than just criticize the people who cannot read the source documents as well as you can.

> Nameserver developer need to know more.

And, as such, would be valuable to document in an informational RFC, given that we see errors in that all the time. The two sets of information are quite related.

--Paul Hoffman

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