Orie Steele COMMENT (via Mucherawy) (with Joe Abley)

[vixie]

Forwarded comments from Orie Steele, incoming ART Area Director:

"Recommendations for zone operators and DNS server operators"

• Define "large / small" better.

"Protocol compliance considerations"

• Would be nice to see reporting recommendations, perhaps that make the failure
  an internal cost for the failing component?... would not want a repeat of dmarc
  though.

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"Recommendations for zone operators and DNS server operators"

For what it's worth, and warning! this is a small thing, I think "zone operators" is a bit vague.

The presumed intent of the phrase given the recommendations in the document is to identify people responsible for the choice of records in a DNS zone as part of the target audience. However, in my experience

• "zone" has many meanings outside of the DNS
• "zone" as a concept is poorly understood amongst people who fit the implied target audience but who are not protocol afficionados
• "zone operator" is not a term of art and could (I think) mean different things to different people

I think the intended group is "people who publish information in the DNS".