[30394] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[2]: TLD operations change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe McGuckin)
Tue Aug 1 20:24:58 2000
From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:24:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: sean@donelan.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> Of course, then NSI might have to
> worry about one of the folks it signed a cooperative agreement trying
> to claim it owned the zone files NSI hired it to act as an operator for :-)
> I'm normally opposed to "outsourcing" but in this case outsourcing makes
> a lot of sense. NSI being the business owner of *ALL* the machines serving
> the GTLD zone files doesn't make a lot of sense.
>
> My basic objection is using a set of identically configured hardware
> and software managed by a single operation for a "distributed" system.
>
I'm simply opposed to NSI embedding themselves further into the
infrastructure of the internet, making it that much harder to pry
them loose once their contracts run out...
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Joe McGuckin
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