[94820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Sun Feb 11 13:34:43 2007
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:32:16 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: brett watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <AF6438A1-6D97-4D54-AE88-4BC64FDDAD5A@the-watsons.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:14:49AM -0700, brett watson wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> > perhaps next time the news folks could
> >ask someone who runs a network what the problems are that face network
> >operators?
>
> they did ask one, you must have missed this from the article:
>
> "Verisign, the American firm which provides the backbone for much of
> the net, including domain names .com and .net,......."
isn't this a little like saying we are running out of voice capacity on
the network because YellowPages can't find cheap paper to print their
directories?
surely they could have found a more relevant source.
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