[77278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root vs TLD (was Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Mon Jan 17 10:03:07 2005
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>,
brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:17:04 GMT."
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:55:20 +0000
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> You may or may not think Verisign as registry is blameless / disreputable
> and to blame for this incident.
There is causation for incoherence between the authoritative and
non-authoritative nameservers for a particular data set.
> You may or may not think the gaining/losing registrars are blameless /
> disreputable for this incident.
There is causation for provisioning state change triggers to the database
used to construct a particular data set published by the authoritative
nameservers for that particular data set.
> Tou may or may not think that ICANN gTLD policy is blameless / disreputable
> for this incident.
There is causation for policy and mechanism that is articulated in end-to-end
transactions between registrants, intermediate entities, and registries.
These are not mutually exclusive. Blame and repute are secondary to the
correct reconstructions of causations.
Eric
