[dns-operations] TLD zones with lame servers

[Mark Andrews]

> On 11 Jun 2019, at 12:49 pm, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.email> wrote:
> 
> On 6/10/19 7:36 AM, Jim Reid wrote:
>> This is a matter of national sovereignty.
> 
> Let's be very careful throwing that term around. At best it's politically loaded, and not helpful to the conversation at hand.
> 
> As for what any person or organization operating a name server that is mentioned in someone else's delegation has a right to do, Jim is correct that there is no mechanism currently for ICANN to remove a name server from a delegation without permission from the ccTLD Manager. Absent a specific policy or mechanism that comes from the ICANN process, they would be wrong to do so.

Which is a gross omission.  Operators of servers need to have to the ability to remove themselves from a delegation.

> I have as much sympathy for the technical correctness argument as anyone else, but what we would consider to be a clear bright line is a slippery slope to others, with a pool of hangry alligators at the bottom.
> 
> Doug
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