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Re: root name servers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Sun Jul 30 23:29:35 1995

From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: roll@stupi.se (Peter Lothberg)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 20:25:25 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu, postel@ISI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.0.807049621.roll@Junk.Stupi.SE> from "Peter Lothberg" at Jul 29, 95 10:27:01 pm

> > > For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should
> > > not be run by a single organisation.
> > 
> > they never have been.
> 
> The Mannings proposal of a single domain, seems to me like the first
> step...
> 
> --Peter
> 

I think there may be a bit of confusion here.  There is a plan to compress
the root cache, making it appear to be a single, multi-homed machine. 

Then, there is the other entity... EP.NET, which is being soundly thrashed
by operators in the know.  They have -NO- relationship to each other.

-- 
--bill

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