New domain name registry rules (was: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names)

[<michael.dillon () bt com>]

> > > I think this might be a bit in conflict with efforts 
> registries have
> > > to reduce the turnaround in zone modification to the order 
> of tens of
> > > minutes.
> >
> > Why is this necessary?  Other than the cool factor.
>
> I think the question is "why should the Internet be constrained to  
> engineering decisions made in 1992?"

Well, I think the question is, why to new domain additions have to be
lumped in with all other zone changes and updated within minutes? Why
can't new domain additions be treated specially and be held back for a
day or two in order to prevent tasters from abusing the network. Note
that this would not prevent tasting from happening, it would only hurt
those tasters who are doing this to hide the source of network abuse. 

--Michael Dillon