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Slow downn a little... Apparently Mark Kosters is on vacation... so they're trying to track him down to get this cleared up (this info gleaned as a result of trying to deal with Genieweb claiming .com authority :-) Rodney Joffe Chief Technology Officer Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company http://www.genuity.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Caulfield [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 1997 10:17 AM > To: Gordon Cook > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated > > As I understand it (and I really don't so you should stop reading > now...) > the purpose of locking down the zone files (or whatever) is not > necessarily a power grab by NSI, but rather a move to protect the > people > and information who appear in that database (or whatever) from > otherwise > nefarious miscreants. Folks who want the file will simply have to > register > for it. > > I believe information generally wants to be free, but there may be a > good > business, technical and socially acceptable case for asking users of > the > database to identify themselves. > > Also, it's possible NSI got ahead of themselves and locked stuff up > before handing out the keys. What with the move and power grid > failures in > Herndon, anything's possible. > > -- > JMC > > > On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Gordon Cook wrote: > > has the basic problem that paul vixie complained about been solved? > > > > I called a knowledgable source last night. That person was aware of > the > > change and said that the proper IANA people had been informed in > advance > > and had (he thought) not disagreed. the change he believed was not > for any > > of the reasons that paul feared. > > > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote: > > The message below was one of several that came to me today. > Apparently, > > when NSI changed the FTP access controls recently for the COM, ORG, > EDU, > > and NET zones, they also disallowed zone transfers from the "A" name > > server to most of the other name servers.
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