Re: [wg-c] Mark's Proposal

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

Let's see, Simon:

You do a query on your own DNS server and get a hit on .info.

Somehow that is supposed to prove something about CORE?

Perhaps you would care to engage in some careful, documented, step-by-step 
pedagogy, for those of us failing to see whatever it is that you think you 
have proved?

At 09:29 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>At 03:17 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>>CORE has *no* presold TLDs.
>
>How do you explain the following *FUNCTIONAL* DNS records (maybe DNS for a 
>CORE registry TLD server being carried by an alternate root?):
>
>[simon@vaio simon]$ date
>Tue Apr 11 04:32:07 GMT 2000
>[simon@viao simon]$ nslookup 208.1.127.5
>Server:  vaio.higgs.net
>Address:  204.80.101.90
>
>Name:    berk.serv.nic.info
>Address:  208.1.127.5


And...

At 09:11 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>At 02:03 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>>Nope.  They were never reachable at all.  CORE never set up alternate
>>roots (except for internal testing purposes); and it never sold
>>registrations in any alternate roots.
>
>Not true. A deal was cut by John Gilmore a few years ago (Feb 1998) to 
>carry the 5 undisputed TLDs in the ORSC root because CORE had no test 
>infrastructure:

Gosh, Simon.  You would not, by any small chance, have some additional 
documentation of this tidbit would you?  That is, how does one 
independently verify that CORE worked with ORSC and used the ORSC 
independent (non-IANA) root?


>> > if people want to sell SLDs within them, fine.
>>CORE has *never* done that.
>
>The POC specifically *ALLOWED* pre-sales (a decision not to ban is an 
>acceptance of a practice, if not an endorsement):

By that logic, your choosing not to go out and patrol the streets for 
criminals makes you responsible for all the crimes of those bad 
folk.  Shame on you!

Really, Simon, a remedial course in basic logic is called for,

d/

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