LB> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:04:52 -0500 LB> From: Leo Bicknell LB> Right. Suggest a way IANA could reasonably notify all the LB> users. I personally don't see one. So, responsible or not, LB> they have no good way to notify people. The registries have LB> a way to notify people. Correct. Then the issue is whether or not people respond. I like Jeff Wheeler's post... people who don't update their filters lose GTLD (and root?) nameserver service. And, again, while we're at it -- let's let the NSen in question end in .0 and .255 to help rid the Net of broken "smurf filters". LB> Point is, end users don't deal with IANA. They deal with the LB> registries and for those in North America (this is nanog, LB> isn't it) ARIN is it. As the communities desigated LB> represenative to interface with IANA, I feel it is ARIN's LB> duty to collect and distribute information from IANA. Give Rob Thomas official authority, a paycheck, and the necessary bandwidth. ;-) Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.