You do realise that when the day was chosen it was just the date after which new versions of name servers by the original group of Open Source DNS developers would not have the work arounds incorporated?

For ISC that will be BIND 9.14.0 and no that will not be available Feb 1 but you can use the development version 9.13 which has had the code for a while now. 

Individual operators of resolvers will make their own decisions about when to deploy. 
-- 
Mark Andrews

On 31 Jan 2019, at 12:55, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:



On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:41 PM Jim Popovitch via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 17:22 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote:
> Any chance this could wait until say the Tuesday 
> *after* the Superbowl, when we aren't cutting an 
> entire religion's worth of potential workers out of 
> the workforce available to fix issues in case it 
> turns out to be a bigger problem than is expected, 
> and when we have less chance of annoying the 
> vast army of football-loving fans of every sort? 

IIRC, DNS Flag Day was announce way before last years Super Bowl...
what did the people who aren't ready for DNS Flag Day do in the past
364 days that they need a few more days to get ready for?


Oh, so they had 365 days to plan the time of the event and still picked a friday for that event?


I see.