On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 07:14:29PM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
On Thursday, May 29, 1997 6:03 PM, Karl Denninger[SMTP:karl@MCS.Net] wrote: <snip> @ @ @ I rest my case. Only one of these has anything approaching reasonable @ connectivity, all appear to be off single-point failure circuits (except @ possibly manhattan.com), and all are running in non-RFC2010 mode. @
Karl,
I am not sure that uDNS claims to be "better" than eDNS.
uDNS is claiming to be what eDNS *was*, which simply isn't true.
As I understand the situation, eDNS people are now going to focus on building a more robust version of the BIND software and will be focusing on operational excellance and stability.
Correct.
The uDNS people seem to be more interested in supporting a wide-range of Registration Authorities and new Top Level Domains that are somewhat controversial. There does not seem to be a strong "technical" or "operational" slant to the uDNS movement.
Actually, unless I grossly misread what I saw last night, there will be no RAs, and the structure is more than a little different.
I am sure that system administrators will be able to make their decision which Root Name Server Confederation they prefer. With 6 active confederations, companies now have a choice. That is what free market help to create.
Correct so long as people don't mislead the public. Unfortunately many people like to do that, and its a bad practice which is not limited to any particular root server set. In fact, it seems to be endemic on the Internet as a whole.
I look forward to working with you on the new version(s) of BIND, and I also look forward to seeing uDNS take shape. Both groups can make a contribution to the Internet.
-- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation http://www.Unir.Corp
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