[ppml] Policy Proposal -- Eliminate Lame Server policy

[Scott Leibrand]

I oppose this policy proposal.  I believe that the current policy 
(section 7) defines reasonable policy guidelines for ARIN staff, and 
does not micro-manage operational details.  The fact that ARIN took the 
single paragraph of section 7.2 and expanded it into an entire page of 
procedure for dealing with lame delegations gives me confidence that 
we're striking the right balance here.

It may be worthwhile to use the ACSP to suggest improvements to ARIN's 
lame delegation procedure, and may even be appropriate to refine lame 
delegation policy to require delegated servers to answer authoritatively 
for all delegated subdomains covering an allocation.  However, I don't 
think it's appropriate to remove section 7.

-Scott

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> Owen DeLong wrote:
>   
>> Template: ARIN-POLICY-PROPOSAL-TEMPLATE-1.0
>>
>> 1.	Policy Proposal Name: Deprecate Lame Server Policy
>> 2.	Author
>> 	a.	name: Owen DeLong
>> 	b.	email: owen at delong.com
>> 	c.	telephone: 408-921-6984
>> 	d.	organization: JITTR Networks
>>
>> 3.	Proposal Version: 1.0
>> 4.	Submission Date: 11 September, 2007
>> 5.	Proposal type: delete
>> 	new, modify, or delete.
>> 6.	Policy term: permanent
>> 	temporary, permanent, or renewable.
>> 7.	Policy statement:
>> 		Delete section 7 from the NRPM
>>
>> 8.	Rationale:
>> 		Recent PPML discussion has called attention to the
>> 		fact that lame DNS delegations are more an operational
>> 		issue than one of policy.  As such, the existing lame
>> 		delegation policy should be removed from the NRPM
>> 		to remove the resultant confusion.  This is not meant
>> 		to prevent ARIN staff from taking reasonable action
>> 		WRT DNS operational issues related to resources issued
>> 		by ARIN, but, such action can be covered by staff
>> 		operational guidelines and is not within the scope
>> 		of Address Policy.
>>
>> 9.	Timetable for implementation:
>> 		1 June, 2008
>> 10.	Meeting presenter:
>> END OF TEMPLATE
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