oh, for goodness' sake.
Eric Osborne
eric at employees.org
Thu Apr 9 12:21:59 UTC 1998
>
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> > My vote's for NIC.INT. I'm still searching for the correct RFC on INT
> > rules to see if that's appropriate, however.
>
> Personally, I feel that with the new TLD's coming online, IMHO, there's no
> reason why one more couldn't be added JUST FOR stuff like RIPE and ARIN
> and the internic. And the Root servers, etc.
>
> Maybe .NIC or .REG or .CORE or .... ?
>
> Set the requirements so that only those organizations providing "core"
> internet services, which if break we're all screwed at least somewhat, can
> get a delegation under them.
Yeah, that'll last.
How much trouble do you think a porn site would go to to get WWW.HARD.CORE?
I thought so.
Also - is "being able to download the newest version of Netscape" a core
service? You don't think so (I hope), and I certainly don't think so, but
Netscape may think so. Microsoft, too. I'm being kinda cynical here, but
anything's possible.
>
> I can see one of the questions on the allocation form:
>
> 8) Estimate the number of messages which will be generated on the nanog
> list if your existing Domain was placed in hold status.
>
That's a *great* idea! Perhaps we just form a "nanog-domain-approve" list,
and just have an internet cabal that decides on every domain registration!
Remember, the only reason most people don't like dictatorships is because they
aren't in charge...:)
eric
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