[ppml] Comments on ARIN's reverse DNS mapping policy

[Sam Weiler]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, William Herrin wrote:

> The posters so far are essentially correct: no policy has been 
> broken here.

I disagree.  Current policy requires ARIN to remove lame delegations 
from the reverse DNS zones it manages.  I've seen evidence that ARIN 
isn't doing that, and I think ARIN is in violation of NRPM Section 
7.2.

In this case, I'm using a broad definition of "lame" that includes 
"all nameservers listed in the NS RRset are unreachable".

Here's another example that was reported to ARIN on May 11th, four 
months ago to the day:
'dig +trace 79.114.208.in-addr.arpa.'

Perhaps some guidance from the staff would be useful here.  Is the 
current policy sufficient for you to clean these up?  Are you reading 
"lame" broadly enough to cover the cases raised by Mr. Von Essen and 
myself?  Absent instructions from the community specifying a 
timetable[1], how long will it take between these being reported and 
them being cleaned up?  (FWIW, I'd prefer to see a short timetable, on 
the order of two weeks.)

-- Sam

[1] Not that I'm optimistic about the chances of ARIN listening to the 
community: 2005-3 included an implementation timetable of 90 days 
after adoption.  It appears to have taken 797 days.