North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack
As a new subscriber to this list, I am pleased to see a diversity of opinions without *flaming*. At 03:32 PM 7/22/97 -0500, Aaron Abelard wrote: >I'm sick of paying the NIC to, and in reality I think Kashpureff's hack is >pretty elegant. However, I disagree that capitalism is /pure evil/. Once >upon a time the net was driven by research and academia, but that day has >passed. The net as it stands now is in poor shape, and a with the latest >intense round of backhoe attacks and DNS problems the enormous amount of >capital invested in the internet will have to be protected. This is when >those capitalist companies will finally start to hash out technologies >that make the internet more redundandt. Agreed! >The problem and, I >believe, the solution lies with the root name servers. Until people >accept and use more than the current InterNIC root server we won't be able >to announce any more domain name strategies. Agreed! All in all, I *do* think that NSI has done a good job with their role as registrar and Root Server Operator. I even think that their recent glitch was not to be unexpected, and any registrar could have a similar glitch at some point in their future. My only issue with NSI is that they stand to benefit without ever facing any financial risk (NSF funding ==> collect fees as a government sanctioned monopoly ==> cashing out via IPO). Open the name space up to true competition (i.e. not the gTLD-MoU), and all netizens will benefit. Regards, Jay Fenello President, Iperdome, Inc. 404-250-3242 http://www.iperdome.com
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