On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Lucian Daniel Kafka wrote:

> Is the notion of primary and secondary NS preserved in the registry? Ie -
> it looks like if you submit a primary of ns2.acme.org and a secondary of
> ns1.acme.org, they get swapped in the whois display order. Maybe its just
> sorted to look pretty.

<generic answer>
The notion of 'primary' and 'secondary' is irrelevant to a parent
nameserver/registry/etc.  What matters is that all of the nameservers
supplied are authoritative for the given zone.

( ie, primary and secondary are administrative concepts which are
  particular to a given domain, and the rest of the internet shouldn't
  care )
</generic>

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