[142073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 18:22:52 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:13:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1A160B62-14AF-4072-BCDD-DE034C4A2171@ianai.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
> As for calling ICANN stupid, thinking this will help fracture the
> 'Net, I think you are all confused. I think the NANOG community has
> become (OK, always was) a bit of an echo chamber. Trust me when I say
> we are the minority. Most people think very differently, and we better
> accept that if we hope to affect things outside our little group.
We may be the minority, but my experience is we have a pretty good record
at spotting where the pinch points might come up in proposed expansions/
changes.
http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit.
(Ok, it might or might not break actual browsers, but I have seen "require at
least one dot or assume it's not a domain name" in *lots* of code; the
inability to put sjobs@apple in your address book will not be popular.)
Interstate-level traffic engineering types are not a big political bloc,
either... but no one ignores them when building Interstates.
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
