On 11/26/19 7:40 PM, Mark Allman wrote: > I wonder if we're ever allowed to just decide this sort of thing is > ridiculous old shit and for lots of reasons we can and should just > garbage collect it away.
To some extent, "get rid of ridiculous old sh*t" is kind of what the DNS Flag Days are working on, though with rather more baby steps than I suspect you are conceiving. Even these small, rational proposals have met with push-back in some sectors. It's quite a lot of work to deprecate stuff in a way that minimizes operational fall-out. > To me, this whole notion is that we can in fact get rid of this > giant network service. If we don't get rid of it then what is the > incentive to move one's own resolver away from using the root > nameservers? On garbage-collecting crap traffic, it's worth looking at AS112. Mostly this runs on a bottom-up community-driven basis, where the incentive to run an AS112 node comes from the simple self-interested economic basis of not wanting this crap taking up capacity on one's own outbound infrastructure. While AS112 makes a difference, it is far from ubiquitous or optimal. Probably there are gains to be made from more aggressive co-ordination and advocacy (*), but I suspect these would need stronger resource support from a more top-down source. It's far from the whole problem space, but makes some difference at the root for sure. Keith (*) every so often I get a stark reminder of how low awareness of AS112 is...no, we don't want to buy transit for it, thanks.. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
