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Re: Ad Hoc, eDNS, AlterNIC and the bunch

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Apr 10 15:24:27 1997

To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
cc: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>, Jordan Mendelson <jordy@snappy.wserv.com>,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:19:51 CDT."
             <19970410121951.46336@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> 
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:55:18 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


Karl Denninger writes:
> But the IANA does not own majority of those servers.
> 
> In fact NSI owns many of them,

One, operated as part of their cooperative agreement.

> and they do not appear to be consenting to this "work".

I do not believe that their consent or lack thereof is an issue. NSI
is a company doing a job under contract. I do not know if they do or
do not believe otherwise, but that is not really material.

> Then again, the IAHC has failed to substantiate that any of the IANA servers
> will actually *implement* any of their recommendations.

I was unaware that such documentation was needed.

Perry
Speaking for myself and not in an official capacity.

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