Re: Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15 Dec 2003, at 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:28:05 PST, bill said: Sorry Mr Bush. We derive our authority from the old IANA, who assigned out the exiting roots. No, that's who *appointed* you. However, you derive your actual authority from all the named.ca hints f

Re: Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:28:05 PST, bill said: > Sorry Mr Bush. We derive our authority from the old IANA, who > assigned out the exiting roots. No, that's who *appointed* you. However, you derive your actual authority from all the named.ca hints files that point to you. pgp0.pgp Descripti

Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

2003-12-15 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Sometimes illustrating the way a job should *not* be done is a powerful educational tool. I have collected a gallery of messy and ridiculous cabling jobs: http://gallery.colofinder.net/shameful-cabling my favorite (not horrible, but funny): http://gallery.colofinder.net/shameful-cabling/cable

Re: Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread bill
> > > > From whom do the root nameservers derive their authority? > > from me > Sorry Mr Bush. We derive our authority from the old IANA, who assigned out the exiting roots. --bill

Re: Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
See Form and Substance in Cyberspace, 6 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 93 (2002), available online http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/formandsubstance.pdf (especially pp. 119-122 ("The role of the root server operators")) and more generally Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to

Re: Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread Randy Bush
> From whom do the root nameservers derive their authority? from me bzzzt! next troll please

Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread Doug Luce
An interesting question I've dealt with a few times: >From whom do the root nameservers derive their authority? Doug

Spam and the Law Conference Update, NANOG Discount

2003-12-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
All, We just got confirmation that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will be speaking at our Spam and the Law conference. It should be *very* interesting to hear what he has to say, in light of all that has gone on with regards to SB186, CAN-SPAM, etc.. Full information current with

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2003-12-15 Thread Hank Nussbacher
Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 13 Dec, 2003 ... ARIN Region per AS prefix count summary --- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 7018 1420 7058 988 AT&T 701 1417 8664 973 UUNET Technologies, Inc.