On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> Joe Baptista wrote:
>
> > Vixie is not an activist. Vixie, like any other individual is motivated
> > strictly by self interest. The recent RBL vs. NSI struggle was a clear
> > indication Vixie can, like anyone else, impose his views on the world.
> >
This need a little investigation and response ..
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> At 08:24 AM 10/2/99 -0700, Richard Sexton wrote:
> > Vixie is an extremist. Back when the birth of news:alt was the bigest
> > mess on the net he was the only backbone cabal memebr that thought this
> > wo
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> "J. Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That's not really an issue - is it. Name daemons come prepackaged with
> > the root servers already prelisted in the root cache file. Few DNS
> > administrators even know there are options.
>
> So under
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> to defy the USG's orders that they not do this? What is the level of
> commitment the hundreds of thousands of net admins who configure their
> DNS servers to the root server operators (as compared with the level
> of stability that they are currently p
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> "J. Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > No. How about real competition? There are 160,000 estimated dns
> > administrators who control which root servers are used by their users.
> > How much do you think corporate interests would pay these adm
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> perfect, offers stability. If there was some kind of cyber-revolt, most
> likely the USG would step in and instruct the net to take their DNS from
> sites that present the same level of coordination they currently enjoy.
No. How about real competition
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
> If you look at the history of AlterNIC, eDNS, etc. you will see that the net
> did not jump whole hog onto the activist bandwagon. That suggests to me that
> there is quite a bit of support for the status quo.
Greg - issues presented by you are irrelev
greg -- you may be right.
Yet if you are right and with an ICANN failure all big business would
have to do would be to go to Congress for a quick and easy fix, then
I ask what are Cerf and Patrick afraid of? Dave Farber who is on
this list put it a little differently.
Aug 22, 1999: Farber:
