glue records in child zone

[Chris Thompson]

On Oct 25 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:14:42PM +1100,
> Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote 
> a message of 38 lines which said:
>
>> 	Because the Atlas servers are based on old code and because
>> 	there are delegations that only work in COM and NET because
>> 	the servers promote glue to answer.
>
>At the last OARC <http://www.dns-oarc.net/> meeting in Ottawa
>(september 2008), Matt Larson (Verisign) announced that ".com" and
>".net" name servers will "soon" change to the proper behaviour (this
>triggered a lot of applause).

And what happens to those "delegations that only work in COM and NET 
because the servers promote glue to answer", then? And which are they,
anyway?

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk