RE: Domain as Nameserver

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick [mailto:patrick@gandi.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 7:52 AM
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:40:12PM -0000, 
> asbjorn.rrp@theglobalname.org took time to write:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in draft-ietf-provreg-epp-host-03.txt it states:
> > 
> >   <<This document assumes that host name objects have a subordinate
> >   relationship to a superordinate domain name object.  For 
> example, host
> >   name "ns1.example.com" has a subordinate relationship to 
> domain name
> >   "example.com".  EPP actions (such as object transfers) that do not
> >   preserve this relationship MUST be explicitly disallowed.>>
> > 
> > Let's use the .INFO Registry in our example [1]:
> > 
> > If someone registers example.INFO, the RegistrANT has full 
> control over the example.INFO zone, and he can thus use the 
> domain name itself as a nameserver if he wants to.
> > 
> > Will EPP allows the RegistrANT to add example.INFO as a 
> _nameserver_ in the Registry, or do .INFO nameserver have to 
> be on the third level?
> 
> As far as I have seem from experimentations, they do not, but they
> should (or at least it is not forbidden in the drafts, but they are
> doing many things not explained anywhere)

I agree that this sort of behavior isn't forbidden in the drafts, as it
shouldn't be.  If example.info can exist as a name server in the DNS (and it
can), the protocol should be able to provision a name server with that name.
It might be confusing, but it's DNS-legal.

-Scott-