Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack

Tue Jul 22 21:26:12 UTC 1997

As a new subscriber to this list, I am pleased to see a diversity of
opinions without *flaming*.

At 03:32 PM 7/22/97 -0500, Aaron Abelard wrote:
>I'm sick of paying the NIC to, and in reality I think Kashpureff's hack is
>pretty elegant.  However, I disagree that capitalism is /pure evil/.  Once
>upon a time the net was driven by research and academia, but that day has
>passed.  The net as it stands now is in poor shape, and a with the latest
>intense round of backhoe attacks and DNS problems the enormous amount of
>capital invested in the internet will have to be protected.  This is when
>those capitalist companies will finally start to hash out technologies
>that make the internet more redundandt.  

Agreed!

>The problem and, I
>believe, the solution lies with the root name servers.  Until people
>accept and use more than the current InterNIC root server we won't be able
>to announce any more domain name strategies.

Agreed!

All in all, I *do* think that NSI has done a good job with their role
as registrar and Root Server Operator.  I even think that their recent
glitch was not to be unexpected, and any registrar could have a similar
glitch at some point in their future.

My only issue with NSI is that they stand to benefit without ever facing
any financial risk (NSF funding ==> collect fees as a government sanctioned
monopoly ==> cashing out via IPO).

Open the name space up to true competition (i.e. not the gTLD-MoU), and
all netizens will benefit.

Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com