I agree almost completely (and that "almost" is only there to cover me in case I think of an objection later) with what Bill Manning said. But I'm particularly concerned about this:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:46:21AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: > A self-correcting problem. The folks that are affected are the ones > using the non-updated server and no one else. The problem is that those folks are _exactly_ the people who don't understand any of this Internet plumbing anyway. All they know is, "This thing isn't working," or, "The Internet is down," or something similar. The idea that they're going to put pressure on someone to fix it entails a great deal of optimism about what naive users might know about how the Internet functions and who can solve their problems. I think I should have put this another way than "cure worse than the disease." I agree that having lots of dispersed copies of the root with at best very loosely coupled management of those copies would solve the disease we have. But this seems to me like solving the problem of yellow fever by completely draining all the swamplands of the world: it may be great for the humans, but it's pretty lousy if you're one of the animals that lives in the swamp. A -- Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/ _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
