On 23 Nov 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: > vint, the thing you're not including in your analysis is that mr. baptista > is a dns pirate and his article in circleid was entirely self-serving and > politically based. Paul baby - it's a honour to get such recognition from you. But where's your Proof? Now Paul - I find it somewhat entertaining that you would crawl out of your wintering hole and growl at me and make false accusation i can use againts you. Thats not nice Paul. And frankly it's my opinion that such baseless jibberish is below you. Your a recognized leader in this community. A root server operator. You even went along with postel on the hi-jacking (or was that test) if the root servers. Paul your a legend in internet history. What you have to say carries weight here. Yet your so quick to anger and libel. I ask that you refrain from this shameful conduct. or give me proof of your claims? > > The issue is less the size of the file than the problem of updating many > > copies of it reliably. The root server operators find it a challenge to > > assure that even the modestly sized root zone file is correctly distributed > > to all root servers accurately and in a timely fashion. > > that's our issue. mr. baptista's issue is that he wants everyone on the net > to have their own unique root, each with a set of tld's seasoned to local > tastes, ideally with many of them pointing at tld's he controls. this is no > different in its end result from what new.net wants, it's just a different > method of achieving it. I'll tell you what mr. baptista wants. he wants a zone file that is simular to the .com file. A place where everyone can get their own tld. The roots are irrelevant to the issue - they are simply a false monopoly obstacle in a game where the end user is in charge. The current USG root monopoly is built on ignorance and mr. baptista wants to see that ignorance evaporate. > the thing that surprised me was that circleid actually published his article, > including URL at the end (http://www.dot-god.com/resources/ROOT.html) which > points to mr. baptista's activism/piracy site. i had not thought of circleid > as a tabloid until yesterday. Paul - there's no other place to put it. You'll notice in my other articles published at circleid that i use lists. example: http://www.circleid.com/articles/2539.asp in this case i linked to an ipv6 list of isp's as the story was on ipv6. it's important that my readers have references to investigate. something i don't find in many articles these days. but i do appreciate your concern. i'll suggest to my editor that any lists i use he feel free to duplicate on circleid. now paul i can't make any promisses. means more work - but at least your feedback will be heard. > (what's worse, i think that we are both now guilty of feeding the trolls.) well if i'm a troll then you've been a tasty nibble. but paul - let's try to get along here. the ietf list is one of the few lists i'm on which is civilized. let's try to work towards that together. kindest regards joe baptista