On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

Tue Apr 3 02:04:59 UTC 2007

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, David Conrad wrote:
> 
> 
> On Apr 2, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:33:08PM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> >> I think this might be a bit in conflict with efforts registries have
> >> to reduce the turnaround in zone modification to the order of tens of
> >> minutes.
> >
> > Why is this necessary?  Other than the cool factor.
> 
> I think the question is "why should the Internet be constrained to  
> engineering decisions made in 1992?"

Amen to that. That said, you know better than me that even if not
constrained, it still needs legacy support as well as small steps.

Unless, of course, the changes are not in engineering decisions.

> 
> Rgds,
> -drc
> 