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Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded

  • From: Christian Kuhtz
  • Date: Sat Feb 03 20:36:41 2001 
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:03:25PM -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> 
> > The category "OS vendors" gets a little fishy... Do Linus Torvalds and
> > Alan Cox get on the list if they sign the NDA?  How about Patrick
> > Volkerding?
> 
> If they're mature trustworthy people (I know Linus but not those other guys)
> and if they need some time to get patches ready for large user bases, then I
> feel sure that they'd be welcomed gladly.

How about large SP's like ourselves who have many machines to keep current 
and are exposed to the world?  How about a, say, russian SP not bound to
U.S. laws?  Will they be allowed to subscribe to your list or not?  How will
you enforce such a closed user group on an international scale?

I really don't want to take a position either way, but I think the above
are interesting and important questions.  I would appreciate if you could
shed some light on those particular areas of concern.

> Why are we discussing this on NANOG?

'cause it does affect operators to some extent (some of us do use BIND 
for production purposes in one way or another).  Besides, we got nothing 
better to do apparently... *sigh*

Cheers,
Chris

-- 
Christian Kuhtz <[email protected]> -wk, <[email protected]> -hm
Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
"I speak for myself only.""