[37660] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Stability of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat May 19 01:24:32 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Shawn McMahon' <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: "NANOG (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:24:42 -0700
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You've obviously not spent much time at their web-site.
see http://www.new.net/help_isp_info.tp
Especially, download their hints file. It looks like a root-zone to me....
BTW, I don't run theirs because it has some colliders with ORSC root zone.
But, they are definitely TLDs. That the ALSO support those zones at the 3LD
is a compatibility move, not a cheat.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:smcmahon@eiv.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:22 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Stability of the Internet?
>
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:16:12PM -0700, Tim Langdell, PhD wrote:
> >
> > new roots? There are a host (sorry for pun) of ways of
> introducing new TLDs
> > without adding new roots. For instance the New.Net approach
> and the addition
>
> The New.Net approach doesn't add new TLDs. It is an
> application solution,
> piggybacked on existing TLDs.
>
> It essentially consists of replacing DNS with something else, that
> unfortunately still requires DNS to function. It is, in a
> word, parasitic.
>
>
