Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

["Osterweil, Eric" <eosterweil () verisign com>]

On 1/25/11 7:04 AM, "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> > If the DNS was as unreliable as those words suggested, nobody would use it.
>
> I see evidence of this unreliability every day, so I must respectfully
> disagree.
>
> ;>
>
> > The reality is that everybody uses it.
>
> The reality is that they don't really have a choice, now, do they?
>
> ;>

I think it's actually correct, and backs up Danny's point: it is very useful
to be able to use a system that is: deployed, understood, operationally
viable, etc.  The risk of designing from scratch is best described by the
lead time many other architectural changes have/are facing in being
deployed.

I think the bottom line is that this infrastructure will allow a security
solution to reach deployment _much_ sooner than a green-field design.

Eric