On 16/12/2012 02:26, David Conrad wrote: > The UMD folks are making a change to _their_ infrastructure.
as is their prerogative. It's just that they happen to operate a particular chunk of Internet infrastructure which is pretty important in the scale of things. > They have > sent out a notice in advance of that change to folks who might be > interested. They were under absolutely no obligation to do so. There is > no contractual or service level agreement between UMD and _anyone_ that > requires them to do _anything_ with regards to root service. yep, absolutely. > The fact > that they gave 3 weeks notice that they were changing the IP addresses > of their server shows they are nice folks. Neither you nor anyone else > that uses "D" has any right to dictate how UMD operates their > infrastructure, how much notice to give when making changes to that > infrastructure, who gets notified, etc. No-one's dictating: I'm just asking them politely to take some suggestions into consideration - suggestions which no-one has so far pointed out as being unreasonable, and which I would tend to view as being procedurally sensible and good things to do. That's all. Nick