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Can we please dispense with the discussion of domain name services on the NANOG list? I would personally prefer that this discussion be taken elsewhere. Thanks, - paul At 03:32 PM 07/22/97 -0500, Aaron Abelard wrote: >On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Mathias K. wrote: > >> The centralized nature of the system is a real drag, >> and I'm hoping that some genius out there is working on the next generation >> that will allow anyone to associate their ip address with anything they >> want. I believe that the capitalist aspect of what the internic is doing; >> taking money for an essential service and trying to make a profit, is PURE >> EVIL and goes against everything that I belive "the net" should be. So >> although I don't particularly like they way that Kashpureff is staging his >> rebellion, I do believe in his cause. > >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. 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. > > Aaron Abelard / [email protected] / http://www.abelard.com/ > "Nunc Lento Sunito Dicunt, Moreris" (Donne) > "Lasciate tutto speranza, voiche entrate" (Dante) > "kinda like a cloud i was up way up in the sky" (NIN) > "Once more unto the breech, dear friend" (Shakespeare) > > > >
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