At 12:31 PM 07/03/97 -0400, Gordon Cook wrote:

has the basic problem that paul vixie complained about been solved?

I called a knowledgable source last night. That person was aware of the change and said that the proper IANA people had been informed in advance and had (he thought) not disagreed. the change he believed was not for any of the reasons that paul feared.

So there is some *good* reason why the root level servers of the Internet should be out of synch with each other, slightly over half of them carrying data that is out of date by almost a week? Did your source happen to address this issue?