Re: Good Timing for .COM Problems ?

On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, MFS wrote:

Maybe I am sorely out of touch, but was NSI actually granted ownership of com? This may sound like a flippant comment, but I am completely serious. I may be out of touch here.

I was under the impression that NSI's contract was up, and that root services were going to move in April of 1998.

I suppose that this central point of failure has it's positives, it could be good if the com and net information is corrupted, NSI could reload proper info on their servers and that would be that. BUT, NSI could corrupt the data and NOT reload for several hours, rendering the root operators helpless.

Michael Stevenson michael@dook.org