[28130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetSol screwing the pooch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Apr 13 22:46:20 2000
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:43:59 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Message-Id: <200004140243.TAA06914@kitty.kotovnik.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> NSI's been screwing the pooch so long, it's surprising we're not all
> knee deep in puppies!
I find it amusing that large ISPs tolerate NSI for so long despite the
enormous costs its incompetence imposes on their businesses. Now the bunch of
self-proclaimed rule-setters called "ICANN" is going to screw them even more.
I would think that these large ISPs should form the consortium and finally
build a normal registry database; they already have infrastructure for
customer service, and offer their customers assistance with domain registration.
There is no need for independent registries. Customers wishing to register a
domain should simply talk to their ISPs whose personnel can then go and update
the consortium-owned database. Oh, and BTW, they _already_ have the contact info
for their customers, so they do not depend on the NSI-claimed "ownership" of that
information. And, unlike NSI or other registries, they can actually verify that
information - and they have a pretty simple method of dealing with abusive
customers.
This approach scales, it can improve domain-related customer service by an
order of magnitude, and it does not require any political games. Despite the
cut-throat competition in the market, ISPs managed to maintain a coherent and
functioning global routing infrastructure. The DNS is as essential for their
customers as the actual packet transport; so i think it is time for competent
people to take over it, too.
Now, the question is when the ISP managers will wake up and get a clue.
--vadim
