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On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 07:14:29PM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote: > On Thursday, May 29, 1997 6:03 PM, Karl Denninger[SMTP:[email protected]] wrote: > <snip> > @ > @ > @ I rest my case. Only one of these has anything approaching reasonable > @ connectivity, all appear to be off single-point failure circuits (except > @ possibly manhattan.com), and all are running in non-RFC2010 mode. > @ > > Karl, > > I am not sure that uDNS claims to be "better" than eDNS. uDNS is claiming to be what eDNS *was*, which simply isn't true. > As I understand the situation, eDNS people are now going > to focus on building a more robust version of the BIND > software and will be focusing on operational excellance > and stability. Correct. > The uDNS people seem to be more interested in supporting > a wide-range of Registration Authorities and new Top Level > Domains that are somewhat controversial. There does not > seem to be a strong "technical" or "operational" slant to > the uDNS movement. Actually, unless I grossly misread what I saw last night, there will be no RAs, and the structure is more than a little different. > I am sure that system administrators will be able to make > their decision which Root Name Server Confederation they > prefer. With 6 active confederations, companies now have > a choice. That is what free market help to create. Correct so long as people don't mislead the public. Unfortunately many people like to do that, and its a bad practice which is not limited to any particular root server set. In fact, it seems to be endemic on the Internet as a whole. > I look forward to working with you on the new version(s) of > BIND, and I also look forward to seeing uDNS take shape. > Both groups can make a contribution to the Internet. > > -- > Jim Fleming > Unir Corporation > http://www.Unir.Corp Thanks. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, http://www.mcs.net/ Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| NOW Serving 56kbps DIGITAL on our analog lines! Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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