[158933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advisory =?windows-1252?Q?=97_D-root_is_changing_its?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Dec 16 07:07:44 2012
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:07:23 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
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On 16/12/2012 02:26, David Conrad wrote:
> The UMD folks are making a change to _their_ infrastructure.
as is their prerogative. It's just that they happen to operate a
particular chunk of Internet infrastructure which is pretty important in
the scale of things.
> They have
> sent out a notice in advance of that change to folks who might be
> interested. They were under absolutely no obligation to do so. There is
> no contractual or service level agreement between UMD and _anyone_ that
> requires them to do _anything_ with regards to root service.
yep, absolutely.
> The fact
> that they gave 3 weeks notice that they were changing the IP addresses
> of their server shows they are nice folks. Neither you nor anyone else
> that uses "D" has any right to dictate how UMD operates their
> infrastructure, how much notice to give when making changes to that
> infrastructure, who gets notified, etc.
No-one's dictating: I'm just asking them politely to take some suggestions
into consideration - suggestions which no-one has so far pointed out as
being unreasonable, and which I would tend to view as being procedurally
sensible and good things to do. That's all.
Nick
