Re: enough is enough

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:18:19AM +0000,
 Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 34 lines which said:

> However this is howling at the moon. For decades the DNS industry
> has been unable to get people to fix their lame delegations or get
> them to stop using BIND8 or to use software which does EDNS or...

An experience at AFNIC: between 1996 and 2012, we had a mandatory
pre-delegation (and also pre-registration, which was not a good idea)
technical test, implemented by the Zonecheck program.

During this period, we had a lot of angry customers, many insults
(ranging from "incompetent bastards" to "lazy civil servants"), many
calls upon the ghost of Postel ("you should accept what is obviously
broken") and our dose of french-bashing
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/afnic_dns_server_redelegation/>

Registrars complained, bloggers complained, industry analysts
complained. Nobody supported us, not even the people and organisation
who have their mouth full of big words like "security and
stability". And noone tried to imitate us...

Even if you are a non-profit organisation, you have to pay the bills
(and the employees) so in the end, the forces of the free market won.

Zonecheck mandatory testing was retired in december 2012
<http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-operationnelles/6473/showOperational/maintenance-arret-de-la-chaine-d-enregistrement-le-17-12-de-18h30-a-20h30-1.html>
(french only)

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