[35643] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Wed Mar 14 06:56:08 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'mdevney@teamsphere.com'" <mdevney@teamsphere.com>,
Scott Francis <scott@virtualis.com>
Cc: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>,
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>,
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>,
nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:08:50 -0800
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> From: mdevney@teamsphere.com [mailto:mdevney@teamsphere.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 11:57 PM
> Actually, I'm enamoured of someone's idea to just blackhole
> new.net and
> let them figure out how to sort that. Saves me a whole lot
> of trouble, I
> just get to ask the customer where they got the idea that
> .xxx was a valid
> tld.
>
> If we all do that (And yes I can see a significant [10%+]
> fraction of this
> group's readership doing it), then the problem goes away
> soon. An elegant
> fix, except that new.net would probably sue anyone who
> blackholed them...
Indeed they would. It is even likely that they'd win. Such action wouldn't
win ICANN any favours in Congress either.
