On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gert Doering wrote:
That's an operational problem, not a technical one. If IANA/ICANN isn't working, give them a good beating, but please don't break policy to cover for human deficiencies.
Well, the policies should created for humans that deal with machines, not for machines that have to deal with humans. Renumbering Google means a change of an A (or CNAME) record. And people can still use Altavista or Lycos, so no big deal. Renumbering a ccTLD DNS is painful - even a secondary one. Not to mention what happens to the primary, if the operator providing connectivity to the registry bankrupts. Remember the ns.EU.net case? And what about public exchange points? Regards, Beri ---------------------------------------------------------- Berislav Todorovic, Designer KPN Telecom B.V. - OER IP Design and Engineering Phone: +31 70 343 1950 * Email: beri@eurorings.net ----------------------------------------------------------