Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble? (fwd)

Wed Feb 19 06:50:54 UTC 1997

Someone asked me privately:

> Hey, in case you /dev/null Karl:  The 5ms at 1200 req/s criteria in
> RFC2010 refers to the latency of a request from the local network, right? 
> The RFC doesn't make that clear, and in fact would make it sound like it's
> supposed to be able to do 5ms over wider areas. 

RFC2010 did not intend to amend the universal constant "C".