[34344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Sat Feb 3 17:17:47 2001
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:14:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > Will the ISC implement similar policies with its INN and DHCP software
> > in the foreseeable future, or is this something unique to BIND?
>
> I don't see INN or DHCP as critical to the internet's infrastructure, so, no.
You mentioned in your pre-announcement TLD operators being eligible for
this new list, but made no mention of domain name registrars.
I count 141 ICANN "fully: accrediated domain name registrars, with an
unknown number of secondary registrars due to systems like OpenSRS.
These organizations collectively handle second-level name resolution for
the overwhelming majority of the millions of .com, .net, and .org domains
in use on the Internet. And while I haven't done a survey, I'd surmise
that they overwhelmingly use BIND.
Will these 141 organizations many of whose business relies on BIND be
eligible for your fee-based list? Do they consitute providers of "critical
infrastructure" in your eyes?
