authoritative: use other than for zone xfer?

[Len Conrad]

Other than enabling/disabling zone transfers, what other 
advantage/disadvantage is there to an NS being authoritative or not?

eg, who/what else cares if an authoritative NS is answering with correct 
data but non-authoritatively?

Len
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