On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:25:27AM -0500, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote a message of 40 lines which said: > IMO, it would be really helpful if relevant WGs or other groups > concerned with DNS operations and configurations would take the > question up again, review it, and make some sort of definitive > contemporary statement (even if that were only "it depends" with an > explanation of the tradeoffs). An important reason why we SHOULD have DNS reliability (including geographical variety) even if service X is down is because there are several services, not just the Web. OK, if the Web site is down, it is not *too* important (but it is important, for the reasons you mention) if I cannot resolve www.ietf.org but email, jabber, etc, continue to live and need the DNS. So, I believe that the future DNS service of the IETF, announced on ietf-announce is badly designed. As we say in french "The shoemaker always has the worst shoes". _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf