Re: I-D (Re: Out of date contact information )

[Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>]

> > I've added ROUTING to do what TROUBLE is often used to do.
>
> I question whether this is a good idea -- some providers have a
> "routing" mailing list that isn't really intended for public
> dissemination and use. For instance, routing () uunet uu net and
> routing () es net both bypass their respective NOCs and go straight to
> engineering types -- perhaps we need to pick a new name for those
> sorts of lists, but I really don't see what having a "routing"
> buys us over "noc".

This is the kind of collision that makes this "standard" expensive to
implement.  Folks elsewhere use ROUTING as a way to reach the folks
who want to hear about externally visible routing problems; NETCOM
for example advertises this address in its RADB elements.  I think
that folks like UUNET and ESNET will have to pick new addresses if
they don't want their engineers getting spammed.  Sorry about that.


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