[59891] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc1918 ignorant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Jul 23 14:52:16 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:51:16 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> When the RFC's are broken, then what do you do?
If negotiations fail, you revolt and overthrow the corrupt governing body.
If applicable, add overseas occupation forces :)
>
> RFC's are to be followed if one can operate one's network
> under those constraints. Often times, RFC's don't take into
> account real world considerations.
>
Unfortunately putting the non-rfc-compliant out of business would
require distributing clue to the buyers, which has been tried and
usually fails.
> For instance: The "rule" that there should be only one root
> server network does not provide a solution to the problem of
> a corrupt monopoly gaining control over that one root server
> network (as is the case now).
You sure have filed drafts how this should be corrected, specially
those which do not specify two roots, yours and theirs?
Pete
