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From: rick@UUNET.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Proposal for use of DNS to store RFC 987, etc mappings
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Date: 31 Jul 90 13:44:46 GMT
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There are even networks that use RFC822 *AND* SMTP *AND* DNS that
are not connected to the internet (they are blocked for "political"
reasons at the gateways. "Political" could be as simple as not
meeting the aceptable use policies of NSF).

Requiring connected status for domains listed in the root servers
makes no sense and cuases a fair amount of problems. (Sure
require the nameservers to have conmnected status, but there's nothing
gained by requiring the addresses they serve to be connected)

The current policies on what gets into a root server etc
needs to be reworked in a major way

--rick