On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:37:54PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2012-07-16, at 11:21, Mark Jeftovic wrote: > > > Sorry, I mispoke when I said glue record. It's not a glue record that > > needs to exist, BUT there does need to be a nameserver defined for that > > hostname at the registry before you can delegate a .com or .net domain > > to it. > > For even more clarity, it's perhaps worth mentioning that in gTLDs this is > mainly an artifact of the EPP data model (which itself inherited aspects from > earlier data models). > > Registries (e.g. ccTLD registries) which take other approaches might not need > the registration of a host object (or equivalent, in their model). >
This is partialy true, the EPP protocol has overcome this limitation and supported both operational models, hosts as objects or attributes, since its inception (see RFC 3731 1.1). Fred _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
