On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:46:58PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 39 lines which said: > It seems to me true, from experience and from anecdote, that DNS out > at endpoints has all manner of failure modes that have little to do > with the protocol and a lot to do with decisions that implementers > and operators made, either on purpose or by accident. Indeed, in one of his messages, Keith Moore listed many "problems with DNS" that were completely different in their origin. Almsot none were protocol-related, most were operational but some were not even linked to DNS operations, they were layer 8 and 9 issues (such as the registrar transfer problem in ICANNland) and completely offtopic for the IETF. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf