Jo Rhett wrote:
On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:12 PM, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
I would appreciate it if the personal attacks ceased.
There was no personal attack there. I never called him names or made
any remark about his lifestyle or anything else. I did say that he
isn't paying attention to the people who disagree with him, but that is
an observable fact.
As an observer
with no ax to grind on this issue, it is apparent that slaving the root
zone is technically possible, but not necessarily good policy.
Actually, it has been argued/shown-by-those-who-would-know that while
you can do it, it won't work in a stable manner once everyone starts
doing it. The protocol itself is not designed for many unknown
associations, really.
It would
be nice if those arguing against slaving the root zone would articulate
the specific effects on top-tier servers and quantify them.
This has been done, both here and on the DNS Operations list where this
is actually topical. Repeatedly. This topic is dead, horse beaten to
crap, except that Doug Barton really loves this idea and won't listen to
why it won't work, and why it shouldn't be done, and why he shouldn't
have done it that way. He just keeps coming back and saying "now lets
talk about this some more..."
As another person with no ax to grind, my sense is that this was a
professional albeit heated discussion. Briefly, it seems to me that
Doug introduced changes with no prior discussion - this was his only
real fault, and for this he has appropriately apologized.
The result of the heated discussion was that the slave zone thingy was
turned into an option rather than the default. As far as I am
concerned, this is an entirely satisfactory resolution, and shows that
the discussions had their desired effect. That the discussions became a
little heated merely shows that we are human beings. The main thing is
that everyone was upfront and honest about their agendas, and that the
matter was resolved in the appropriate technical manner.
Best regards, Stephen
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