Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread Mike Damm
Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to reconstruct 90% of the com/net zones from publicly available data (http://www.deleteddomains.com/newlist.shtml?cid=11673-11084 would be a good start). Constantly farming for missed zones, and maybe even query

Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread E.B. Dreger
MD> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:07:41 -0700 MD> From: Mike Damm MD> Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? I'm sure I dunno. We'd be trusting those operating the gTLD network. ;-) MD> it wouldn't be too hard to reconstruct 90% of the com/net MD> zones from publicly available data

Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:07:41AM -0700, Mike Damm wrote: > > > Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? I'm sure it wouldn't be > too hard to reconstruct 90% of the com/net zones from publicly available > data (http://www.deleteddomains.com/newlist.shtml?cid=11673-11084 would be a

Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
This would require cooperation from the root-servers operators. And a serious effort from ISP/NSP community to block network access to root-servers that don't cooperate. I agree that it's a good idea at this point. I see nothing else as a serious long-term technical solution. Mike Damm wrot

RE: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread Mike Damm
m Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop > You can download the real zones if you want easily enough. Some years ago > all this took was sending a few faxes.

RE: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Germann
301 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: bert hubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:31 AM > To: Mike Damm > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop > >

Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Vixie
> > Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? > This would require cooperation from the root-servers operators. speaking for f-root, we won't be cooperating with anything like that. we do not edit the zone files we serve. they come from iana, and if you want something different serv

Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:27:05 -, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > speaking for f-root, we won't be cooperating with anything like that. > we do not edit the zone files we serve. they come from iana, and if > you want something different served, you'll have to talk to iana. i > cannot s

Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-17 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 17.09 04:27, Paul Vixie wrote: > speaking for f-root, we won't be cooperating with anything like that. speaking for k-root we will not either. > ... sounds like mob rule to me -- count me out. so, block me first, i guess? block us second. Daniel

RE: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Damm
-Original Message- From: Paul Vixie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop > > Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? > This woul