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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN Draws Fire Over Proposed Charges
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Dillon wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > > > It means that the operator of the root server in question will change. > > You mean like when C&W took over operation of much of MCI's network? > > > If > > I were to hazard a guess the place of operation and the physical server > > itself will be different as well. > > Is this a problem? People change routers and circuits all the time. In > fact, the physical root server hardware has frequently changed with nary a > peep on this list. Michael, Did I say it was a problem? No. I just stated that it was occuring. > > If one or more of the current root server operators refuse to sign, > > operation of the root server is going to change hands if ICANN has their > > way. > > Why is this bad? Sounds like the move would take the A root server out of > the political arena and put it into the hands of the technical ops folks > which would be a decided improvement, IMHO. Moving the A root server puts it directly in the political arena. The move is political in nature. > > Bill, perhaps this is another issue which you need to speak to ICANN > > about? It's disconcerting to me that as an operator that you haven't been > > informed about these issues. Here's an article from News.com on what is > > occuring: > > > > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C38613%2C00.html?dd.ne.txt.0701.07 > > Sheesh! I don't even have to look at that article to know that you are not > going to learn anything useful to network ops from a newsmagazine. Ignorance is it's own reward. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Telocity http://www.telocity.com (408) 863-6617 v (tinc) (408) 777-1451 f "This is our time. It will not come again." \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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