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["Aaron J. Angel" <aaron.angel AT gmail.com>]

On 08/15/2012 02:49 PM, David Norman wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Aaron J. Angel <aaron.angel AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Slightly different principal.  A resolver can't find DNS servers until
>> it's told where to look.  Also, users don't want to fuss with settings
>> regularly.  The original issue was with new operators.  Or new servers.
>> So impose a probationary period on new operators.  Or new servers. Don't
>> list them as ready until they have a proven track record.
> I'm not necessarily proposing the same exact setup as ntp's pool. More what 
> I had in mind is that there seems to be a pool of willing programmers for 
> opennic who could automate this problem away. Example - the list doesn't 
> show you until your server has passed 95% of testing for two straight 
> weeks. If it goes down for 2 hours/days/weeks, it automatically un-lists, 
> even if the maintainer communicated downtime.
>
> I'm just making up crap numbers to help picture the general idea.

Makes sense.  Also, the tier2 page could use work.  Not human friendly.