[34410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Preferential notice of new versions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Kyriannis)
Sun Feb 4 21:33:43 2001
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:37:39 -0500
From: Jimmy Kyriannis <jimmy.kyriannis@nyu.edu>
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To: Jeffrey Meltzer <meltzer@villageworld.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 11:38 PM 2/3/01, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:10:23PM -0800, Sean Donelan typed:
> > As far as I can tell, ISC did not say they would stop distributing patches
> > through the same methods used now. If you don't want to pay, you will
> > get the exact same patches, through the exact same methods you get them
> > now.
>
>I think the issue some of us have is ISC won't *let* you pay. It's not an
>issue of wanting to. They're playing favorites, which just doesn't seem
>right.
>
>Jeff
In the FAQ that was distributed, it was clear that anyone is welcome to pay
to help support the ISC mission. However, I agree with ISC that a certain
amount of priority must be given to the root and TLD servers (notice, they
snuck government servers in as well at the end). This isn't to say that
our security needs aren't as significant as theirs, but they are a critical
part of the Internet infrastructure, and widespread dissemination of
security-related info that could compromise those servers before they've
had a chance to apply patches would have a global impact affecting
millions, not to mention the ability of our own DNS servers to function.
Regardless, there's no point in getting bent out of shape over this - I've
always understood this practice to have been going on for a very many years
now, and it hasn't been rare to see the root servers running a patch
release not available to the general public. Just now, however, we're
seeing this practice openly stated and formalized.
Jimmy
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