On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:02:29AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
The question was what we should do, not what they should do. For example, should we remove their domain from the top level servers if it has ceased to serve any legitimate purpose?
<sigh> Legitimate to _whom_, Barry? It's a _TLD_. It only has to be "legitimate" to the Administrative Contact in the whois record, as far as I can see.
But we can cut off our half of the connection if we feel it is primarily malicious and abusive.
"our half of the connection". The link itself is almost certainly commercial, and the root DNS entries, I strongly suspect, are there in trust for the IANA, who are the administrative owners of "", to the extent that there are any, I think. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff "The net is safer in bad weather: you The Suncoast Freenet can't run a backhoe Tampa Bay, Florida in a hurricane." (after Sean Donelan) +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com