[11082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Good Timing for .COM Problems ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Mon Jul 21 00:55:20 1997
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 23:44:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: MFS <michael@dook.org>
cc: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>,
"'Multiple recipients of list DOMAIN-POLICY'" <DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970720122301.713A-100000@guinness.dook.org>
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, MFS wrote:
>
> Maybe I am sorely out of touch, but was NSI actually granted ownership of
> com? This may sound like a flippant comment, but I am completely serious. I
> may be out of touch here.
>
I was under the impression that NSI's contract was up, and that root
services were going to move in April of 1998.
>
> I suppose that this central point of failure has it's positives, it
> could be good if the com and net information is corrupted, NSI could reload
> proper info on their servers and that would be that. BUT, NSI could corrupt
> the data and NOT reload for several hours, rendering the root operators
> helpless.
>
> Michael Stevenson
> michael@dook.org
>
