[enum-wg] Italian Nameservers for 9.3.164.arpa. dead?

Hi John et al.

I agree with most of your statements. Comments inline.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, John C Klensin wrote:

> 	(3) Before contemplating any steps beyond that,
> 	carefully consider the question of who is being harmed.
> 	Bernie, no matter how much your users are being
> 	inconvenienced, the real harm is being done to their
> 	correspondents in Italy.

As far as I know 9.3.e164.arpa has never been populated and so far there 
has been no intension to actually establish an ENUM service within 
9.3.e164.arpa. (Therefore, my collegues in Italy from the Research and 
Education community are using the nrenum.net tree as an interim solution 
until an ENUM service in 9.3.e164.arpa. becomes available).

Thus, the only ones suffering from this particular problem are the calling 
users (due to timeouts).

>       it is time to route around the problem

Usually I tackle problems at the source...

But you are right, in this case it is worth considering a workaround e.g. 
modify some software or configuration, to prevent queries for 
9.3.e164.arpa. at all.

> 	rather than trying to figure out how to punish them.

If my assumptions stated above are correct, I don't see any punishment 
in case the delegation for 9.3.e164.arpa. would be removed.
(However, I see the point that removing a zone is a rather 
problematic and slippery way to address this issue.)


cheers,
  Bernie