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[ietf-clear] Zone cuts are not the solution to everything (Was: Make CSV backwards compatible with legacy SPF re

2004-11-19 00:44:52
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:42:59AM -0000,
 John Levine <clear(_at_)johnlevine(_dot_)com> wrote 
 a message of 35 lines which said:

Moreover, zone boundaries need not match administrative boundaries.

I strongly agree with this description of the limits of zone cuts.

"nom.fr" (nom == name in French) is a different zone (RFC-2181
speaking) from "fr" but they are managed by the same entity and obey
to the same rules.

Zone cuts exist for the convenience of DNS administrators.  It's
quite common to break up one administrative domain into multiple
zones,

Yes.

it's not unheard of to combine multiple administrative domains into
a single zone if they happen to be hosted on the same DNS server.

Less frequent, IMHO, and a bad idea.