[enum-wg] Name "ripe" in the e164.arpa zone

At the moment ripe.e164.arpa is needed they will made a fix for it, making a 
fix before that moment isn't needed if you ask me.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reid" <jim at rfc1035.com>
To: "Anand Buddhdev" <anandb at ripe.net>
Cc: <enum-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [enum-wg] Name "ripe" in the e164.arpa zone


On Jan 17, 2008, at 14:56, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> The tools that transfer these zonelets rely on this extra piece of
> information in the TXT record for consistency checks. Similarly,
> AfriNIC, ARIN and APNIC also generate zones for their /8 allocations
> with records named "afrinic", "arin" and "apnic".
>
> The e164.arpa zone does not really need this "ripe" record in it,
> since
> it is not shared among the registries in any way. However, because the
> e164.arpa zone is generated automatically from the RIPE Database by
> the
> same tools, it automatically receives this extra name. Currently,
> there
> is no way to stop the zone receiving this extra entry. But it has no
> negative effect on the zone or on ENUM operations.

Hmmm. This smells like a bug. Why are the DNS provisioning tools for
e164.arpa generating data that isn't needed and inserting that data
into the DNS? I wonder what will happen if the ITU one day decides
that "ripe.e164.arpa" should be delegated to someone....