At 01:46 PM 7/24/99 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>At 09:37 AM 7/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
Richard,
Sorry I didn't respond sooner (my mailbox is overloaded), but...
>
>Each has a charter for dispensation of the name and must
>maintain a DNS database (such as IN-ADDR.ARPA). Why on earth
>would you need seeparate address regstries? There are only
>so many clues to go around, and a need for a finite set of
>registries and servers. Saying we need a multi million dollar
>company to manage one domain seems silly to me. According to
>the latest stats, ARIN, the largest IP registry does 4
>allocaitons ina peak load, 2 a day nominally. ARIN's servers
>are still housed at and run by NSI.
ARIN's servers are not housed at nor run by NSI.
Kim Hubbard
ARIN
>
>So what makes more sense. One monolithic address registry
>which is a monopoly and a single point of failure,
>or 2048 registries, any one of which can give you an address
>you can use?
>
>
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