[62253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Sep 17 01:10:13 2003
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 -0400."
<6.0.0.22.0.20030917003525.09168368@209.112.4.2>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:54:17 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I trust your assessment of the DNS techs. But what about [their] bosses?
the ones i've met in recent years seemed like reasonable people.
> They ordered some pretty lumpy things be done with .com and .net.
> Given that track record, whats to stop them from ordering [the techs]
> from doing something equally lumpy.
root zone content is tied up in all kinds of red tape. the root server
operators won't modify it in any way; we publish only what we get from iana.
iana and verisign and the united states department of commerce all have to
agree on changes to it. imagine a "mexican standoff" with three people and
six guns. with the ietf/iab as referee and scorekeeper, and the rootops as
an interested audience. ("entertain me!")
i'll say it again. nothing that happens in dot-com or dot-net has any
relevance at all to the root zone, or to the root server operators.
