[62248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Sep 17 00:56:12 2003
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:46:31 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 EDT, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> said:
> I trust your assessment of the DNS techs. But what about the DNS tech's
> bosses? They ordered some pretty lumpy things be done with .com and .net.
> Given that track record, whats to stop them from ordering the GTLD techs
> from doing something equally lumpy.
Well, for starters, Verisign is the ONLY one doing the .com and .net zones.
To pull a stunt like that at the root, they'd have to get the OTHER 9 or 10
organizations to buy in, or they'd find themselves outvotes 13 servers to 2,
or whatever the exact numbers are....
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