[48282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: proposed government regulation of .za namespace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat May 25 07:06:34 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 04:06:04 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
what i did was negligible. many folk in za, vic shaw, jacot
guillarmod, alan barrett, chris pinkham, and then the whole uucp
crew up on the reef, did the real work. but mike did push it,
though with vastly excessive use of violence.
> However, there is a larger arrogance he is battling - a poorly
> informed committee writing bad legislation that presumes they can
> do a better job of administering .za than he can.
well, za and some of its principal subdomains are the highest error
rate zones i secondary or use. but i can imagine a different part
of the government doing an even funkier job. the contest is likely
keen.
but semi-clued governments and semi-clued folk in general seem to
be attracted to the domain name space. i suspect it is one of
those areas that appear simpler, more powerful, and more lucrative
than they actually are. running a cctld well is a major pita with
no thanks and thin rewards.
randy
