On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> > My understanding is that they had no intention of deploying
> > nameservers for it, that it was merely a demonstration/testbed of
> > their registry software.
>
> The purpose of the deployment was to demonstrate to various parties that
> Tucows was in possession of "nuclear technology". Turning on nameservers,
> in my mind, is very much like booking range time at Cold Lake, Alberta. ;)
I am sorry that I am not familiar with the neighboorhoud, and cannot
fully comprehend what you mean here. I think I can guess.
> We proved our core point and truth be told, weren't comfortable moving any
> closer to proving the political point that we could deploy an alternate
> root system a la IOD or Name.space.
Yes, that was what I was hinting at :-)
> Hopefully later this afternoon the relative success of our POC will become
> more evident as ICANN reveals four out of the five registry contracts we
> were sucessful in obtaining from "new gTLD hopefuls".
Now we are all curious about the 5th of course. Might that be Afilias?
As far as Moo is concerned: forgive me for asking again: How long will
it be up?
Thx!
--
Marc Schneiders
"In re tam iusta nulla est deliberatio."
(Acta SS. Mart. Scillitanorum [AD 202])
