[56628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: scope of the 69/8 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Tue Mar 11 13:24:00 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:03:14 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
> If the roots and gTLDs are truly unwilling to help, and a handful
> of entities can't cooperate, I have serious concerns why they
> have been handed responsibility for such a critical piece of
> infrastructure. I'd expect "it's too hard to be a good netizen"
> whining on other lists... but NANOG? Roots and TLDs?
>
> Perhaps this is an omen of the Internet yet to come. Oh joy.
Come on, you're asking the root and/or TLD operators to renumber their
servers -- not a trivial task -- every few months to intentionally disable
their own service for what amounts to an academic experience.
These folks are in the business of running a critical system that requires
100% uptime for hundreds of millions of users, and they do a damned good
job. Let them do it in peace, and find some other "must have" service (like
porn) to put in 69/8.
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
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