-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is indeed a sad state of affairs when I see so many operations people caught up in DNS and IP portability religious wars that our very reason for existence is forgotten. Lest anyone not know what I am referring to, our primary purpose in life is to operate our autonomous networks in such a way that our subscribers can *easily* and *transparently* participate in the global cooperative collectively know as the Internet. The evolution of this entity has progressed so rapidly that it is sometimes difficult to remember the sheer numbers of ordinary citizen/corporate subscribers that ultimately pay our salaries. Our duty/task is to provide them with *easy* and *transparent* access to the Internet and to prevent instabilities that threaten that access. If we fail to do that we will intimately find ourselves without a paycheck. We may disagree with the way certain things are implemented, but we must always remember that our subscribers provide an enormous amount of inertia against major change. Change must be CAREFULLY thought out, meticulously planned and scheduled. It cannot be allowed to disrupt subscriber service... Not if we want to keep subscribers paying us... I was there in the old days... When we could test a new idea online in production mode and announce it in a week or two... Unfortunately those days are long gone. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOrIs/xRIXzEQLahvEQLf0gCgq00fiTfX7yOssU9bzZTyQHJo4jwAoJsV Gm+d64TduOnCGkiHCeiTrXFA =+TPY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----