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Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal

  • From: Haesu
  • Date: Sun Sep 21 16:38:46 2003 
A lot of people try the alternative root servers since their existance. And I have yet to see one that really worked to convince majority of internet to find it authoritative...

alt-servers seems to be emotional response to the problem. No matter how hard you try, I doubt even 20% of all ISP's on the internet will use it :(

-hc

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:37:03PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > This sort of not-for-profit is exactly what I proposed when the VeriSign
> > discussion started. A non-technical response to a non-technical problem.
> > Since my inital email, I've recruited a few other NANOG folks and put up a
> > website: www.alt-servers.org.
> 
> what a BAD idea.  worse than anything else on the table or in existence today.
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> Paul Vixie