[dns-wg] Deletion of ns-v6.ripe.net

On 24/04/2018 17:28, Jim Reid wrote:

Hi Jim,

> Well, I would say that if the name’s in the query traffic, that
> means it’s “in use”. For some definition of that term. YMMV.

I respectfully disagree. A human may idly query the name ns-v6.ripe.net
out of curiosity. If they happened to use one of these shiny new
resolvers that do pre-fetching to keep an entry alive, the queries for
that name will persist for a long time, and perhaps even forever. I
don't consider this to be genuine usage. Geoff Huston has done some
interesting research in this area and shown that even single-use unique
names, generated for a special purpose, end up being queried for weeks
or months thereafter.

Regards,
Anand