[3498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The root nameservers will be replaced August 1st
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Jul 18 01:09:31 1996
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: schnell@gsd.sprint.com (Steven Schnell)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:06:44 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: JimFleming@unety.net, nanog@merit.edu, salo@msc.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960717191411.5824A-100000@cde1.gsd.sprint.com> from "Steven Schnell" at Jul 17, 96 07:18:00 pm
Reply-To: alan@gi.net
Hmm.....
NAP operators making judgement about content... Hmm... I wonder
if there are any applicable precedents here...
-alan
......... Steven Schnell is rumored to have said:
]
] Convenient for some, a headache for others. Any responsible NAP operator
] would have to either approve the application running on his network or
] shutdown its unauthorized operation. You know, like disable its
] connection to the exchange point!
]
] steve
]
]
] On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Jim Fleming wrote:
]
] > On Wednesday, July 17, 1996 4:51 AM, Tim Salo[SMTP:salo@msc.edu] wrote:
] > <snip>
] > @
] > @ More interestingly, if someone wants to create an alternative set of
] > @ root servers, there is no particularly good reason for them to be located
] > @ at exchange points, (unless I am confused about what networks are all
] > @ about...). True, servers at exchange points should exhibit greater
] > @ availability, but that is probably not the largest challenge faced by
] > @ alternative root servers.
] > @
] >
] > These are very good points. I think that the exchange points
] > are just convienant co-location sites. Also, in the future, there
] > may be other services on those boxes that have not been
] > announced yet. It is useful to have the boxes in strategic
] > locations in advance of additional changes.
] >
] > --
] > Jim Fleming
] > UNETY Systems, Inc.
] > Naperville, IL
] >
] > e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
] >
] >
]
]
