Re: Statements against new.net?

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () cybernothing org>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Scott Francis wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:47:05PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell had this to say:
> > > Unfortunately, "the market" tends to consist in large majority of 1) users, 
> > > and 2) management. And we all know how bright those two particular
> > > segments of the population tend to be.
> >
> > Well, those are the people defining your paycheck, sure you want to write
> > them off so quickly? 
>
> the very reason they pay my (all our) paycheck is for technical expertise -
> if Joe Q. User had technical expertise sufficient to make informed decisions
> on this type of matter, why would he need to hire a network operator?

Consumer demand is not driven by your technical expertise.

> This whole matter boils down to one question - that being, what way is the
> Right Way to operate DNS or its equivalent? It seems to me (and a few others)
> that, logically, any hierarchical system _must_ have an ultimate authority -
> not 2 or 3 or 27, which is essentially what new.net is trying to do: create
> an alternate ultimate authority.

DNS as it currently exists is a fixed point in an evolutionary path.