Re: [IFWP] Re: Esther Dyson Sells Out Internet Community

[william@dso.net (William X. Walsh)]

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 00:29:32 -0400, Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>
wrote:

>no william,  you spare me the hot air.
>
>how do you think amazon.com, or ebay, or sun, or any of the other major
>companies doing intyernet commerce would react to uunet, sprint, mci, geti,
>psi obediantly directing that they take new root .cache files from a newly
>designated root operator given the responsibilty of running a copy of the
>NSI root.  NSI has the prooven record for stability.. Would al gore want to
>take the heat when amazon disappears from the net for a day?  the customers
>of the big nets would righfuilly be terribly pissed if the big ISPs started
>using a new and uncertain doc designated root

You exagerrate the issue.

I would trust that the NTIA would select a suitable candidate who can
handle the job. 

I also don't think that job would be terrible difficult.  After all,
they have trusted VOLUNTEERS who operate the root-servers for this
stability up until now.

So again, spare us the over dramatizations.  The problem isn't that
difficult, and anyone who has admined a large zone can tell you that.
Sufficient money would make sure of it.



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