[dns-wg] Followup to IANA TLD delegation problem

On Jun 22, 2005, at 00:01, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> - what was the unexpected result?
> - what did cause it?
> - what did permit to decide it could be addressed in small committee?
> - what did permit to immediately understand the problem was temporary?
> - how was it fixed?
> - how to be sure it will not repeat?
> - why was the mail received by AFNIC phrased that way?
> - I have some concerns learning that Verisign has the capacity to 
> enter manually in the root? Why was the problem corrected in changing 
> the root file and not the entry in the IANA file?

Jefsey, these questions have already been adequately answered in the 
responses from Doug Barton on June 11th and 13th. Matt Larson's 
clarification on the 15th was also helpful. If  those replies were not 
clear enough for you, please take it up directly with the authors of 
those messages. I'd appreciate it if you did not carry out that 
dialogue on the DNS WG list. I see no need to continue this discussion 
any further in this mailing list. Alexander Gall made some comments on 
the processes surrounding the to-be-replaced template. Aside from his 
observations, the list has been silent. So the WG should now consider 
this discussion closed.

There may well be some questions on layer-9 issues about transparency 
and process at IANA that have arisen as a result of this incident.  If 
these exist, they should be taken somewhere else, presumably ICANN. 
This WG is for operational and technical discussions about the DNS. It 
does not do layer-9 stuff.

> As I am writing a Draft to include it into a community test bed along 
> ICP-3 guidelines, I would really want to understand, not propose 
> testing a wrong approach.

Hmm. I would have thought the approach to take would be to write the 
draft, see if the ideas that were proposed had any merit and then 
implement and test them. That's normally how things get done at the 
IETF. [Authors of drafts  will typically circulate them to colleagues 
for feedback before they get published.] Feel free to complete your 
draft and submit it to the IETF in the usual manner. Or if you'd prefer 
to have the DNS WG discuss your draft, post it to the list where I'm 
sure it will get the attention it deserves.

BTW Jefsey, please fix your mail client or at least trim your postings. 
There's no need for everyone to see everything that's been posted on 
this thread over and over again by appending the whole of the message 
you're replying to.