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----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Vierling" <[email protected]> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse > > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > I'm going to dive in one more time here. > > > > It's not the *root* operators that are the problem -- it's the *TLD* > > zone operators. > > Oh, I can certainly agree with that; we've seen some gross abuses of TLDs > documented in gory detail right here on the NANOG list. > > Of course, that too is orthogonal to who provides the delegations in "." -- > except that perhaps some misguided souls are, as is relatively common, > confusing the two realms. > > > > Introducing fragmented TLDs or the opportunity to supplant the common TLDs > > > places the DNS infrastructure at risk. This is not just FUD -- DNS > > > hijacking in alternate roots has already happened. (But if you had actually > > > read RFC2826, you would already understand this.) > > > > "infrastructure at risk". Justify this *far-reaching* statement, > > please. Show your work. > > AlterNIC overriding .COM and .NET listings, one of the issues leading to its > demise. (This was done in addition to the more memorable cache poisoning > attacks against INTERNIC.NET.) > Yes, and Eugene was punished for that. Notice that AlterNic really doesn't exist anymore. Repeat after me - COLLISIONS ARE BAD! We all agree with that. > -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > John
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