[101833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 gluelessness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Jan 18 22:55:28 2008
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080119015448.GB90087@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:47:59 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Contact the TLD's. Send them two e-mails, and two faxes. But all
> of those should contain "you have 30 days to object, or we will
> move forward anyway".
This is along the lines of what we're going to propose. It will be
interesting to see what happens.
> I'm all for giving people a reasonable way to object, and/or "protect"
> the things they run. I think though giving them an opportunity to
> stop any process completely in its tracks is, well, stupid.
I've heard this opinion stated (usually by technical folks) quite
frequently. Trust me when I say I don't disagree. It is interesting
(in the 'Ebola virus' form of interesting) to see what happens when
international politics and apolitical technology intersect...
> I'd get involved in making the process less stupid, but frankly IANA
> politics make my head hurt. :)
And you thought I was grumpy just by nature? :-)
Regards,
-drc
