Mark, I can appreciate you frustration, as I am sure many others
the depend directly on NSI and the legacy root structure. It
has
been out of date and flawed for some time in our opinion if you
have read many of my posts on those issues.
But, THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES that work in concert with the legacy
root structure despite the negative statements that many have made
to the contrary. We offer such an working alternative!!
SROOTS
along with BINDplus which we market can provide relief to you
and your customers. A "Shared Root System" is what we really
need, whether it be what we offer or some other derivative or
alternative. Many are violently in disagreement with this.
But the
recent events, to which you are suffering from is stark evidence,
as you indicate, that CHANGE IS NECESSARY!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[For those who haven't been following the fiasco, the registration andRegards,
transfer process at Internic has pretty well fallen apart. With a
smattering of exceptions, anything filed since last thursday, Jan 7
or friday, Jan 8 hasn't been processed, and in many cases, hasn't even
been issued a tracking ticket. NSI has pronounced the problem "solved"
on a couple of occassions and the backlog was to have been processed
first by wed, jan 13 and finally by today, jan 16. At the time of writing
I have not seen one outstanding ticket come through, nor have I been issued
a ticket on those that haven't gotten one yet.]Excuse the terseness of the subject line. I'm just sitting here fuming
because my business is barred from taking on new customers because of
a single point of failure in another system in another company.[0]To be honest, all the talk of ICANN, IFPW, DNSO.ORG, DNSO.NET open
meetings, closed meetings, bylaws mandates *whatever* -they all make
my eyes glaze over. In the past I just quietly ignored all the screaming
about NSI's monopoly. I didn't really care too much because at the heart
of it, we're not in the domain name registration business, we're in the
DNS hosting business. I couldn't care less who had the market cornered
on registrations or not, so long as the mechanisms for getting the
t's crossed and i's dotted in the roots worked when it came to our customer's
domains.Well, all that's broken down. An entire industry grinds to a halt because
the *one* entity with the authority to do what we all need done has
gone and shit itself. A lot of people are screwed, and there isn't a
damn thing anyone outside of NSI can do about it.[1]9 years ago, to the day (yesterday), AT&T suffered it's now famous
meltdown, as it's switches collapsed (with a little help from the MoD)
and millions of subscribers couldn't use the phone. The average phone
user may not have known it, but they had alternatives at the time.
They could punch in another carrier's code and route their calls that way.What I would give right now for an alternate route to the roots.
Which brings me to the open-rsc. You[2] may have extra ammunition in
this episode already to argue your case for open roots. If it keeps
up much longer, I'd say a fairly compelling one.Take the money aspect of it and throw it away. Who stands to make a lot
of lucre by getting access to the roots and who stands to lose a lot by
relinquishing exclusivity is *immaterial* compared to the robustness
of the registry itself. If it is susceptible to a single point of failure,
as it is now, it isn't very robust at all, and the damage and chaos that
can ensue by it failing is reason enough to open the roots to alternative
*registries*.This may very well be a juncture point for the whole process. Depending
on how cataclysmic this failure is some stakeholder is going to play it
to their own ends. Who will that be I wonder?On a personal note, for these technical and pragmatic considerations, I am
now won over from the fence I've been lazing on for the entire debacle.Monopoly...bad...competition...good.
-mark
[0] This phenomenon may be much more widespread in the aftermath
of Y2K. You're compliant? So what? You're still dead in the water because
some key pieces of your food chain have crashed, but I digress.[1] I'm not dumping on NSI, per se. I'm sure there are a lot of harried
engineers over there working their asses off and trying their best. It's
just that the glaring error in the entire structure of the process is
finally becoming clear to me.[2] Us? As I've said before, we mirror the ORSC rootzone on 2 of our
nameservers, dunno if that in itself makes us a member.
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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