[dns-wg] Progress with DNS Quality, Also: Lameness

At 10:02 AM +0200 2003/05/22, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

>  So here is my proposal:
>
>  	Sell the police reports as a premium service!

	IMO, the problem is that the people who really need the service 
(those with unreachable servers and unreachable zones) are most 
likely the people who won't know that the premium service exists, or 
that they need it.  Moreover, even if they know about it, they 
probably won't pay for it.

	I would be inclined to turn this around.  Make the service an 
integral part of the array of services that are provided, and put 
into the contract that if certain circumstances occur, you can be 
charged extra as a result of your negligence.  You could even have 
the zone taken away from you, if things got really bad.  The only 
people who "pay" are those who are causing problems.

	The only issue I see here is making this kind of policy change 
effective retroactively, and getting all the various registrars of 
ccTLDs (and presumably the registrars of gTLDs) to go along.


	No one who needs the medicine will want the carrot that will 
provide it, or will know that they should want it.

	But they will all want to avoid the stick.





	At the very least, a more coordinated and public "name and shame" 
campaign might possibly do some good.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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