[30086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mostly operational content (was Re: piracy on parade)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jul 14 18:54:02 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: rmeyer@mhsc.com
Cc: "'J.D. Falk'" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:32:54 -0400
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In message <000801bfede1$db5ca690$aba4b9d0@PEREGRIN>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" writ
es:
>
>> Right. Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS
>roots:
>> http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt
>
>Yes, pure politics, zero operational content. When was the last
>time the IAB released a technical, politically neutral paper?
>Ans: a ver long time ago (years). That paper caused me to cast a
>negative vote for Brian Carpenter, in the last ISOC elections.
>They presented zero technical support for their position. It was
>all anecdotal, pure opinion, no substance.
I suspect I'm going to regret even responding to this, but... Did you
even read that document before posting? It's purely technical -- it
outlines the purely-technical reasons why the DNS has to have one root
if we're to have effective communication on the net.
As for technical papers -- if nothing else, there are the workshops the
IAB sponsors; the reports of those workshops are also on the IAB Web
page. The report on the Network Layer workshop is about to be
released; there are also forthcoming RFCs on QoS and security.
>
>I submit that the IAB isn't doing its job and until they do, they
>should refrain from wasting their resources in the policy arena.
>
I suspect that the entire IAB wants to spend less time on politics -- I
know I'd rather stick to the technical stuff. But external affairs are
explicitly our responsibility, per RFC 2580 and its predecessort, RFC
1601.
--Steve Bellovin
