[4279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexis Rosen)
Tue Sep 10 22:48:13 1996
From: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>
To: deepak@jain.com (Deepak Jain)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 22:44:19 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: ziegast@zee.im.gte.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960910125403.13905D-100000@aries.ai.net> from "Deepak Jain" at Sep 10, 96 12:56:46 pm
Deepak Jain writes:
> I can see it taking a while for the initial laziness to be overcome, but
> once it is in place, it could provide for a lot of improvements including
> multiply-rooted TLDs.
>
> The big thing is WHO would do this distribution? The Internic's systems
> are already too overwhelmed and customer support is spotty at best.
>
> If we pass it to those service providers that service others [i.e. 1st
> tier] then its more work for them, but I can see it being a much more
> reliable process.
???
Surely you jest.
Well, maybe not. I can see *some* of the tier-1 providers being reasonably
reliable about this.
On the other hand... I can name at least three national providers that I
wouldn't trust to configure their *own* DNS properly. (Don't ask, this isn't
the time or place for flamewars. :-)
While I'm not particularly enchanted with the Internic, I think that their
day-to-day proceedures are working tolerably well. (Note that I'm not
discussing their policies, just implementation). I'd rather see them doing
it than many other organizations.
/a
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Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin,
PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
alexis@panix.com
