<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">You might find this SSAC Advisory of interest, if only as a lesson demonstrqtingto an arrangement where users are admitted to accessing of [zone] file data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Coming now on 18 years, ICANN has obliged gTLD registries to provide for free, copies of their zone files to interested parties. This posture is predicated on the acceptance that "<i>...<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">the DNS is public infrastructure, ICANN accredits gTLD registry </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">operators, and zone files are essential for a variety of legitimate purposes that are in the </span><span class="gmail-fontstyle0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">public interest." </span></i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><i><span class="gmail-fontstyle0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Referencing recent discussions on the list, you might also wish to check out the zone file dataset.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">In the SSAC's view, <i>'<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Policy and process difficulties prevent subscribers from gaining and </span></i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>then maintaining reliable access to zone files.'</i> T</span>hey then handily outlined these policy and process differences as well as clearly state their recommendations for remediation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">-Carlton</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>==============================<br><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Carlton A Samuels</font></i><br><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i></font><br>=============================</div></div></div></div>
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