On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:25:27AM -0500,
John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 40 lines which said:
IMO, it would be really helpful if relevant WGs or other groups
concerned with DNS operations and configurations would take the
question up again, review it, and make some sort of definitive
contemporary statement (even if that were only "it depends" with an
explanation of the tradeoffs).
An important reason why we SHOULD have DNS reliability (including
geographical variety) even if service X is down is because there are
several services, not just the Web. OK, if the Web site is down, it is
not *too* important (but it is important, for the reasons you mention)
if I cannot resolve www.ietf.org but email, jabber, etc, continue to
live and need the DNS.
So, I believe that the future DNS service of the IETF, announced on
ietf-announce is badly designed. As we say in french "The shoemaker
always has the worst shoes".
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