Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal

["John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog () adns net>]

That may soon change. Seeing as how bad things are getting with VRSGN and ICANN
resources are being lined up to solve this problem once and for all.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Haesu" <haesu () towardex com>
To: "Paul Vixie" <vixie () vix com>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal


> A lot of people try the alternative root servers since their existance. And I have yet to see one that really worked 
> to convince
majority of internet to find it authoritative...
> alt-servers seems to be emotional response to the problem. No matter how hard you try, I doubt even 20% of all ISP's 
> on the
internet will use it :(
> -hc
>
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:37:03PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > > This sort of not-for-profit is exactly what I proposed when the VeriSign
> > > discussion started. A non-technical response to a non-technical problem.
> > > Since my inital email, I've recruited a few other NANOG folks and put up a
> > > website: www.alt-servers.org.
> >
> > what a BAD idea.  worse than anything else on the table or in existence today.
> > -- 
> > Paul Vixie