Excuse me, sir, but I've enjoyed quite enough of your behavior Your lack of genuine operating experience is transparent. don't quote adoption numbers for your software - i'm talking about *you* having direct experience running very large name server systems with many tens of thousands of zones, both primary and secondary, or equivalently, working hand-in-glove with those who have Your failure (nee unwillingness) to appreciate the large-scale consequences of your mathematical fantasy land is simply stunning The fact the Real World doesn't care about the constraints you've constructed to make your world view viable doesn't seem to faze you In particular, you don't appreciate the necessity of reasonable operational behavior in the presence of multiple administrative domains which cannot perform with perfect coordination Then you have the audacity to describe those with a deep understanding of what it takes to make the Big-I Internet work at very large scale as "pathetic". Frankly, sir, sit down. You have embarrassed yourself in this forum quite enough and have impeded the efforts of those working mightily to move things along in a constructive manner. You seem to imagine this is some kind of debating society where you gain points by taking yet another turn at the microphone when your opponents have been worn down by arguing with a refractory surface. It isn't a debating society, "rough consensus" goes not require unanimity and there is serious work to get done, so I ask again, Sir, please sit down. I now return you to the previous screed, -mo