[35280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Tue Mar 6 12:02:59 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:47:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net>
Cc: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Brian Wallingford wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> :
> :On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> :
> :>
> :> [ this came from http://www.new.net/about_us_press.tp and appears not to be
> :> a joke. its operational impact will not be felt today, but if it's even
> :> moderately popular before it dies, operational impact WILL be felt. i'm
> :> quite surprised by some of the folks they list as their partners. --vix ]
> :
> :Too bad ICANN has been such a complete and utter failure that an
> :organization felt it necessary to start such a business, huh?
>
> Sounds like this was driven more by carelessness and greed than by
> necessity.
While I agree that the implementation leaves something to be desired, this
appears to be driven by pent-up market demand. Apparently this equates to
greed in your book. *shrug*
