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Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Jul 8 15:37:30 2005

Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:00:57 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p0620073fbef0ceb0d69c@[10.0.1.3]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> 	There's not much we can do to stop the alternate roots.  They already
> exist, and at least two are currently in operation.  However, I think we can
> look at what it is that they're offering in terms of i18n and see what we can
> do to address those issues from inside the system.

They aren't offering i18n, they're offering l10n, because their systems
only work for a small localized community, not the whole international
Internet.

Tony.
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