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In message <[email protected]>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" writ es: > >> Right. Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS >roots: >> http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt > >Yes, pure politics, zero operational content. When was the last >time the IAB released a technical, politically neutral paper? >Ans: a ver long time ago (years). That paper caused me to cast a >negative vote for Brian Carpenter, in the last ISOC elections. >They presented zero technical support for their position. It was >all anecdotal, pure opinion, no substance. I suspect I'm going to regret even responding to this, but... Did you even read that document before posting? It's purely technical -- it outlines the purely-technical reasons why the DNS has to have one root if we're to have effective communication on the net. As for technical papers -- if nothing else, there are the workshops the IAB sponsors; the reports of those workshops are also on the IAB Web page. The report on the Network Layer workshop is about to be released; there are also forthcoming RFCs on QoS and security. > >I submit that the IAB isn't doing its job and until they do, they >should refrain from wasting their resources in the policy arena. > I suspect that the entire IAB wants to spend less time on politics -- I know I'd rather stick to the technical stuff. But external affairs are explicitly our responsibility, per RFC 2580 and its predecessort, RFC 1601. --Steve Bellovin
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