[37702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stability of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Tue May 22 21:45:31 2001
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:43:09 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
Cc: "Tim Langdell, PhD" <langdell@technologist.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105181623520.85859-100000@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>; from jdd@vbc.net on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:24:28PM +0100
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>> There has been much talk of the introduction of new TLDs -- either new
>> ICANN/DoC ones or those of the likes of New.Net -- affecting the "stability"
>> of the Internet. And yet so far on all the lists, not just this one, I have
>> not seen a single example of how the "stability" would or could be affected
>> by such introductions. Can anyone give me even one example?
>
>Uh, this is a Forbidden Topic on this list. Even one example could
>affect the stability of the Internet :-|
all i have to add to this discussion is that i await the time when i
can register index.html as a domain name. it seems to me that someone
will miss the significance of that at some point in setting an
"alternate root" and make really strange waves.
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