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Re: Anyone here from Microsoft? Hacked?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Higgs)
Fri Jan 25 16:58:58 2002

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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:55:47 -0800
To: davidu@everydns.net
From: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 12:11 PM 1/24/02 -0800, davidu@everydns.net wrote:

> > Simon Higgs wrote:
> >
> > ICANN's new root zone works in exactly the same way:
> >
> > http://www.icann.org&search=tld&type=all@3349551349/tech/rootzone/db.root
>
>I'm not sure if you're lacking clue() or are trying to be funny but there's
>no reason to trick people into using the non-ICANN approved osrc zone file
>on accident.

Yes, you're right. I'm sorry, I was just trying to be funny. I had a clue() 
once but the wheels fell off.

>Personally I use their root zone but I woudln't ever coerce someone else
>into doing it.

Coerce? Never! You must be thinking of the IAB (RFC 2826), ICANN (ICP-3) 
and the BIND authors (ever seen a BCP32-example root zone in the distribution)?

I sincerely apologize for confusing anyone into thinking that the above 
root zone is representative of ICANN. The sum of ICANN, its many millions 
of dollars in "fees", its support groups, therapists, committees, and 
membership can be found here (please compare this file with the above ORSC 
"open-source" version):

ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz



Best Regards,

Simon

--
"You can't vote on facts"
                     - Brian Carpenter


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