[9407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Name Server Confederations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Hurst)
Tue May 20 23:35:40 1997
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 22:49:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
cc: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19970520225809.21051@cybernothing.org>
On Tue, 20 May 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 09:57:10PM -0400, Marc Hurst spewed forth:
>
> > are you willing to put your money and your job where your mouth are?
> [ . . . ]
> > At this point this is blatant, malicious business interference...
> [ . . . ]
> > I have to wonder if you have the resources to defend yourself from
> > worldwide allegations of collusion and racketeering?
>
> If threats and personal attacks are how eDNS does business, then
> it's no wonder that less than 0.01% of the hosts on the net are
> configured to resolve eDNS's TLD's.
>
> Far as I'm concerned, until you guys get 10%, you don't exist.
Your observation would be correct if you read it as a threat, however it
is a challenge to the US miopic interests that plague the political
circles of the net.
>
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