[82921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?=)
Mon Aug 1 03:36:45 2005
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog@adns.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 09:30:24 +0200
In-Reply-To: <200507311358.j6VDw6pG016674@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (Valdis
Kletnieks's message of "Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:58:04 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:45:29 CDT, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" said:
>> "... As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers
>> across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web, including the new
>> alternative domain names.
>
> I can see it now...
>
> "Hello, Tiscali User Support"
>
> "I found this really cool website, and I mailed the address to 15 of my b=
uds,
> and they're all saying it doesn't exist and I need to quit smoking crack"
>
> "What's the website?"
>
> "www.really-cool.alt. Now quit playing mind games with me and make it wo=
rk for them."
I fear that Tiscali won't be the ones facing the problems. Instead
we'll have
"Hello, Telenor User Support"
"My friend sent me a link to this really cool website, but your
stupid system tells me it doesn't exist"
"What's the website?"
"www.really-cool.alt. Now fix your systems so I can access it"
The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
answer. Does anyone here have one?
Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
"Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we
start doing the same?"
This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually
also North American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of
us can stand together against it. A good start would be to come up
with a common response to the two pressure groups outlined above.
Bj=F8rn
