Fwd: [address-policy-wg] 2007-02 New Policy Proposal (Change in IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS Policy)

* michael.dillon at bt.com <michael.dillon at bt.com> [2007-05-10 11:09]:
> > I agree with Jeroen. We're having waaay more than 10.000 zones which
> > (currently) don't go over the 512 byte limit.
> > 
> > On the contrary, if I wanted to get PI, what would stop me from taking
> > one zone, expand it's dns records up to 512+ byte and request the
> > space?
> 
> Why should address policy be so tightly tied to the technical details of
> the DNS protocol and its implementation?
> 
> Are you saying that IPv4 Anycast is only justified if the application is
> DNS hosting and the number of separate zones (presumably you count SOA
> records) goes over a certain limit?
> 
> No other application is justified?

No, I don't say that. I'm not happy with these "numerical"
requirements. But I'm *more* happy with the SOA count (in our case)
then the 512 byte limit.

> Only the organization hosting the DNS is eligible, i.e. a data centre
> operator who wants to provide hosting services is not eligible?
> 
> Every DNS hoster with over x zones gets their own /24 even though you
> could aggregate over 200 such organizations into one /24 if they shared
> data centre infrastructure?
> 
> It seems to me that this approach to IPv4 Anycast prefixes only
> reinforces an existing monopoly and blocks organizations who might want
> to take a fresh approach to DNS hosting or other types of application
> hosting.

You definitely have a point here. I'm hoping that someone comes up
with a better plan for the requirement(s), I'm still thinking about
one. It's a lot of space to give away, and there has to be some sort
of limitation.


Sebastian

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