GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
It can be of operational interest or it can fuel a new flame about alternative DNS roots. http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services to More than 680 Global GSM Mobile Operators ... NeuStar's

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Randy Bush
different meaning of 'root server'. pretty surely written by a droid. randy

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Romeo Zwart
/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services to More than 680 Global GSM Mobile Operators ... NeuStar's Root DNS service will serve two functions: first, to register domain names under the suffixes gprs and 3gppnetwork.org, which

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 30/09/05, Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be of operational interest or it can fuel a new flame about alternative DNS roots. http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either A closed service available solely over the gprs network Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too To the public if it looks like internet they

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Niels Bakker
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either A closed service available solely over the gprs network * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]: Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
You are misunderstanding. I'm extrapolating, things rarely stay restricted to the original use they existed for. At some point I expect they'll put something on it that users become aware of and think it'd be much more convenient if we could use the same on the internet The data in .gprs is

[ON TOPIC] Was: Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread James R. Cutler
Management of Naming, Addressing, and the related directory service (DNS) is properly part of Network Operations. Thus, on topic for NANOG. At 9/30/2005 01:43 PM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote: snip/ If they restrict it to internal use then it's non news, anyone can make up stuff with risk of

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: Hi, To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to work like internet You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users