Well - her name was attached to the article, so I didn't think it was inappropriate to mention gender. And no, shes not the first journalist to mangle words or misunderstand, or misrepresent.
--bill On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:56:07PM +0100, Alfred Hvnes wrote: > Bill Manning wrote: > > > cool eh? although I suspect she ment responses. > > > > --bill > > Yet responses usually did not go *to* the root servers so far. > I'm getting confused. :-) :-) > > Did anybody ever have a prejudice against journalists? > -- reconsider, please! :-) > > Alfred. > > P.S.: Disclosing that the writer was female seemed politically > incorrect to me, so I purposely avoided this detail. > > > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:58:41PM +0100, Alfred Hvnes wrote: > >> Interesting News! > >> > >> There must be a hidden trick to introduce DNS Jumbograms we just > >> forgot to mention .... > >> > >> > >> In a press article [1] entitled > >> "Root zone changes may shake up Net in Africa", > >> Computerworld wrote: > >> > >> | From January 2010, ICANN will implement DNSSEC -- using a technique > >> | also known as root signing -- on the root zone, which will affect > >> | the performance of the Internet. Currently, queries from domain > >> | servers to the root are 512 kilobytes or less, but DNSSEC will make > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> | them larger because it introduces new signatures and keys as part > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> | of the security features. > >> > >> > >> :-} > >> > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140123/Root_zone_changes_may_shake_up_Net_in_Africa > > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
