The SWAMP

Wed Sep 11 02:44:19 UTC 1996

Deepak Jain writes:
> I can see it taking a while for the initial laziness to be overcome, but 
> once it is in place, it could provide for a lot of improvements including 
> multiply-rooted TLDs. 
> 
> The big thing is WHO would do this distribution? The Internic's systems 
> are already too overwhelmed and customer support is spotty at best.
> 
> If we pass it to those service providers that service others [i.e. 1st 
> tier] then its more work for them, but I can see it being a much more 
> reliable process. 

???

Surely you jest.

Well, maybe not. I can see *some* of the tier-1 providers being reasonably
reliable about this.

On the other hand... I can name at least three national providers that I
wouldn't trust to configure their *own* DNS properly. (Don't ask, this isn't
the time or place for flamewars. :-)

While I'm not particularly enchanted with the Internic, I think that their
day-to-day proceedures are working tolerably well. (Note that I'm not
discussing their policies, just implementation). I'd rather see them doing
it than many other organizations.

/a

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