root name servers

Mon Jul 31 03:25:25 UTC 1995

> > > For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should
> > > not be run by a single organisation.
> > 
> > they never have been.
> 
> The Mannings proposal of a single domain, seems to me like the first
> step...
> 
> --Peter
> 

I think there may be a bit of confusion here.  There is a plan to compress
the root cache, making it appear to be a single, multi-homed machine. 

Then, there is the other entity... EP.NET, which is being soundly thrashed
by operators in the know.  They have -NO- relationship to each other.

-- 
--bill