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To: Kevin Darcy <kcd@daimlerchrysler.com>
Cc: dnsop@cafax.se
From: Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 23:11:17 -0700
In-reply-to: <3E91F80F.2090409@daimlerchrysler.com>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-04.txt


On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 03:13  PM, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Alain Durand wrote:
>
>> 3- Several people have made the case that apps who rely on the 
>> existence of PTR
>>      are broken and should be fixed. Although I have some sympathy for
>>      this argument, I consider it a long term goal. In the meantime, 
>> there
>>      is an operation issue when the reverse tree is not populated 
>> correctly,
>>      and I understand it would be good to RECOMMEND to populate it.
>
> So, if I interpret you correctly, you want to pay lip service to 
> fixing broken apps (that have broken for years) while at the same time 
> removing a significant incentive for those apps to get fixed.

No. I recognize those apps do exist. What I'm saying is:
"If you care about them, make sure they work".
Just being pragmatic.

	- Alain.

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