[48287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: proposed government regulation of .za namespace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat May 25 16:14:45 2002
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 16:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E17BZN6-0004aj-00@rip.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> 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.
The net worked before DNS existed, and could work after DNS. If DNS
serves no other purpose than to keep semi-clued governments and semi-
clued folks in general distracted from messing with things which could
really break the net, its good.
I'm more concerned about well-meaning people and Secure-BGP than DNS.
