On 07.02.2016 18:18, Brian Kantor wrote:
This brings up the question of who is to be the owner of a DNS entry. Should it be the individual or group who asked for it to be added to the DNS or should it be the coordinator who entered it? The former would mean that hundreds of people would have to register with the portal and take ownership of each of their entries. The latter would mean that it would be up to the coordinators to keep track of who is still active (or still alive!) and delete entries for people who are no longer around. Neither is a satisfactory solution.
At least for Germany the latter should be considered as a satisfactory solution. The German IP Coordination Team did a cleanup of the DNS entries associated with the IP Pool from Germany quite a while ago. During this process most individual allocations have been purged.
As of today most allocations are bound to repeater stations rather than to individuals. Repeater stations serve users with dynamic IP addresses. Permanent users can get static IPs and therefore can get a <callsign>.ampr.org DNS entry, however if the repeater will die our system will automatically flush this DNS entry again from the ampr.org domain. I'm pretty sure the DNS information from Germany in the ampr.org domain has a very good quality and is reflecting the real situation, however there is not a single allocation within the Portal for 44.224/15. Therefore we don't like to become this as a requirement. We use the Portal for direct-BGP and IPIP users on 44.130/16.
We submit almost daily a list of changes to the ampr.org domain through the E-Mail Robot and actually hold 20% of all A records. We vote to proceed with the suggested cleanup from Brian which will flush a lot of A-records even without any call sign information (which therefore can't even be tracked down to an individual). The cleanup would make us hold 34% of all records in the ampr.org domain.
73, Jann DG8NGN