[ncc-services-wg] querying national infrastructure

On Oct 16, 2007, at 15:08, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

> I have never understood this argument really.  The DNS can be  
> viewed as
> a mechanism to publish information to the Internet at large.  Why  
> would
> it be improper to query the published information as long as such
> querying does not degrade the service, e.g. constitute a DoS attack?

Daniel, there are many parts of the world that have a very different  
view of the DNS than you and I have. We both know that the odd query  
for health checking makes no operational difference. But that's not  
the issue. Some governments and regulators view their ccTLD (and by  
implication their ENUM Tier-1) name servers as "theirs". It's nobody  
else's business how those servers are set up and operated. If the  
name servers are dead or broken, so be it. Third parties (especially  
foreign third parties) must not interfere in what these states  
consider is a National Matter.