News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed Sep 17 04:46:31 UTC 2003


On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 EDT, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>  said:

> I trust your assessment of the DNS techs.  But what about the DNS tech's 
> bosses?  They ordered some pretty lumpy things be done with .com and .net. 
> Given that track record, whats to stop them from ordering the GTLD techs 
> from doing something equally lumpy.

Well, for starters, Verisign is the ONLY one doing the .com and .net zones.

To pull a stunt like that at the root, they'd have to get the OTHER 9 or 10
organizations to buy in, or they'd find themselves outvotes 13 servers to 2,
or whatever the exact numbers are....
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