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Re: Good Timing for .COM Problems ?

  • From: Joe Shaw
  • Date: Mon Jul 21 00:55:22 1997 
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, MFS wrote:

> 
> Maybe I am sorely out of touch, but was NSI actually granted ownership of
> com? This may sound like a flippant comment, but I am completely serious. I
> may be out of touch here.
> 

I was under the impression that NSI's contract was up, and that root
services were going to move in April of 1998.  

> 
> I suppose that this central point of failure has it's positives, it
> could be good if the com and net information is corrupted, NSI could reload
> proper info on their servers and that would be that. BUT, NSI could corrupt
> the data and NOT reload for several hours, rendering the root operators
> helpless.
> 
> Michael Stevenson
> [email protected]
>