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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Scott Francis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:47:05PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell had this to say: > > > > > > Unfortunately, "the market" tends to consist in large majority of 1) users, > > > and 2) management. And we all know how bright those two particular > > > segments of the population tend to be. > > > > Well, those are the people defining your paycheck, sure you want to write > > them off so quickly? > > the very reason they pay my (all our) paycheck is for technical expertise - > if Joe Q. User had technical expertise sufficient to make informed decisions > on this type of matter, why would he need to hire a network operator? Consumer demand is not driven by your technical expertise. > This whole matter boils down to one question - that being, what way is the > Right Way to operate DNS or its equivalent? It seems to me (and a few others) > that, logically, any hierarchical system _must_ have an ultimate authority - > not 2 or 3 or 27, which is essentially what new.net is trying to do: create > an alternate ultimate authority. DNS as it currently exists is a fixed point in an evolutionary path.
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