Patrick and all,
In the sprit of openness and transparency, which you have often stated you
are so fond of, maybe you could reveal whom the person is that told you
that one of the root server operators has inquired of the ICANN for direction
that they say they will follow?
Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, John Leslie wrote:
>
> > The damage that NSI can do is limited. The important information is
> > which nameservers are authoritative for which domains, and that information
> > _must_ travel to most of the root nameservers each day. If _any_ of the
> > maintainers of root nameservers decides NSI has gone too far, they can
> > publish the whole zone file, and NSI could be replaced the next day.
>
> A most excellent point, thank you for making it. :-)
>
> The odd thing is that a little bird told me(name witheld by request) that
> one of the root server operators has asked ICANN for direction on this
> issue, and that said root server operator will follow it....
>
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