Re: [aso-policy] RE: [aso-comment] IP address holders - are they represented?

[Phil Pennock <phil@globnix.org>]

Typing away merrily, !Dr. Joe Baptista produced the immortal words:
> As for the concept of a courteous tone, let me advise you that in the good
> old days David Conrad would be hung for his sins.  The DNS is a mess, the
> systems it operates on are hacker friendly and we owe a great deal of
> thanks for this state of affairs to to the quality BIND products 
> produced by Msrs. Conrad and Vixie.

As far as I am aware, nobody here is preventing you from writing a
better DNS server and releasing it for free.

When I check the RFC index, the name 'Vixie' crops up quite a bit.  D.
Conrad is listed as a co-author of RFC2050 "Internet Registry IP
Allocation Guidelines".  I see no mention of the name 'Baptista'.

"In the good old days" you'd have been told to "put up or shut up".

When you can provide details of model which you'd like to see used, with
an analysis of the pros and cons, justifying each argument instead of
making vague "this works" comments, or when you write a DNS server and
give it away for free, then your comments on both these topics may carry
some weight, even with nobodies like me.  From what I've seen so far,
you're even more arrogant that I am (which takes some doing) and you
keep trying to rip apart the present framework without having proposed a
workable one to replace it.

This is just my opinion.  I've not written a DNS server, but then I'm
not criticising the one which is available to me for free.  I've not
proposed a model of an alternative structure for ARIN/ICANN/etc, but I'm
not advocating that we immediately replace it with another, extremely
vaguely specified, system.  I don't particularly like some aspects of
the current System, but I hope that should I make a post which explains
which ones I dislike, then I will at least provide a coherent logical
and consistent argument which is based upon evidence, without major
holes in it.

My apologies if my tone offends - I have just become extremely irritated
at the recent spate of posts from various parties which have made
sweeping statements and said "do this, because it's morally right,
because".
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