In message <20130521090727.GB17630@xxxxxx>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:26:39AM +1000, > Mark Andrews <marka@xxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 52 lines which said: > > > I'm not sure what the solution should be but regular audits of > > delegated nameservers by infrastructure operator and removal of > > delegations after a grace period > > Let's not reinvent the wheel: I suggest to first study the experience > of the TLD which did exactly that. .fr had mandatory technical tests > of the name servers almost from its inception, until december > 2012. The tool used for the tests was Zonecheck > <http://www.zonecheck.fr/> > > Although these tests certainly contributed to the good technical > quality of the name servers, they were removed both for commercial > reasons (a registry has to make money to pay its employees) and > because it was easier to have the same rules for ccTLDs and gTLDs (and > ICANN forbids these technical tests in gTLDs). Which is one of the reasons I wanted to IESG to bring ICANN into the discussions. It need to be a level playing field applied to everyone. Not also this is not checking the delegation. It is checking to nameserver implementation. All ICANN documents I have read presume that a RFC compliant nameservers are being deployed. Nameservers that fail to respond are not RFC compliant. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@xxxxxxx