[dns-operations] register nameservers in different TLD's NS

[Frederico A C Neves]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:37:54PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> On 2012-07-16, at 11:21, Mark Jeftovic wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I mispoke when I said glue record. It's not a glue record that
> > needs to exist, BUT there does need to be a nameserver defined for that
> > hostname at the registry before you can delegate a .com or .net domain
> > to it.
> 
> For even more clarity, it's perhaps worth mentioning that in gTLDs this is mainly an artifact of the EPP data model (which itself inherited aspects from earlier data models).
> 
> Registries (e.g. ccTLD registries) which take other approaches might not need the registration of a host object (or equivalent, in their model).
> 

This is partialy true, the EPP protocol has overcome this limitation
and supported both operational models, hosts as objects or attributes,
since its inception (see RFC 3731 1.1).

Fred