Re: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

Can we please dispense with the discussion of domain name
services on the NANOG list? I would personally prefer that
this discussion be taken elsewhere.

Thanks,

- paul


At 03:32 PM 07/22/97 -0500, Aaron Abelard wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Mathias K. wrote:
>
> > The centralized nature of the system is a real drag,
> > and I'm hoping that some genius out there is working on the next generation
> > that will allow anyone to associate their ip address with anything they
> > want.  I believe that the capitalist aspect of what the internic is doing;
> > taking money for an essential service and trying to make a profit, is PURE
> > EVIL and goes against everything that I belive "the net" should be.  So
> > although I don't particularly like they way that Kashpureff is staging his
> > rebellion, I do believe in his cause.
>
> 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.  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.
>
> Aaron Abelard / aaron () abelard com / http://www.abelard.com/
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