Re: uDNS Root Name Servers Taking Shape - on a couple ISDN lines

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 07:14:29PM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
> On Thursday, May 29, 1997 6:03 PM, Karl Denninger[SMTP:karl () MCS Net] wrote:
> <snip>
> @ 
> @ 
> @ I rest my case.  Only one of these has anything approaching reasonable 
> @ connectivity, all appear to be off single-point failure circuits (except
> @ possibly manhattan.com), and all are running in non-RFC2010 mode.
> @ 
>
> Karl,
>
> I am not sure that uDNS claims to be "better" than eDNS.

uDNS is claiming to be what eDNS *was*, which simply isn't true.

> As I understand the situation, eDNS people are now going
> to focus on building a more robust version of the BIND
> software and will be focusing on operational excellance
> and stability.

Correct.

> The uDNS people seem to be more interested in supporting
> a wide-range of Registration Authorities and new Top Level
> Domains that are somewhat controversial. There does not
> seem to be a strong "technical" or "operational" slant to
> the uDNS movement.

Actually, unless I grossly misread what I saw last night, there will be no
RAs, and the structure is more than a little different.

> I am sure that system administrators will be able to make
> their decision which Root Name Server Confederation they
> prefer. With 6 active confederations, companies now have
> a choice. That is what free market help to create.

Correct so long as people don't mislead the public.  Unfortunately many
people like to do that, and its a bad practice which is not limited to any
particular root server set.  In fact, it seems to be endemic on the Internet
as a whole.

> I look forward to working with you on the new version(s) of
> BIND, and I also look forward to seeing uDNS take shape.
> Both groups can make a contribution to the Internet.
>
> --
> Jim Fleming
> Unir Corporation
> http://www.Unir.Corp

Thanks.

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