Re: First come/First served

[pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac)]

Aveek Datta writes:
> I do not want any of the Alternic TLDs. At this point I do not want any
> TLD since I know I can not operate them at the level required.

I completely agree. However, why not change the level required?

In other words, I really don't think that a good level of service
is a synonym with costly operations. The advocates of UPSs, hi-speed
links, fault-tolerant servers and the like miss the point: machines
never work completely alone. You need people, and they have to do
their work correctly, and not rely on the price tag of their
hardware.

What's crucial about a NIC is that it handles his DNS correctly.
Period.

Power losses, connectivity losses? The DNS is designed to cope with
this. Hardware failures? Hardware is cheap enough these days to
run a DNS server on a $1000 second-hand PC. Disk crashes? Make
backups. Everyone makes backups, right?

Imagining that you're going to run a perfect NIC merely with a
diesel generator and a couple expensive workstations you switch on
and forget is a sure recipe to disaster.

> investment of capital which I currently do not have. On the other hand,
> the administrator of EU.ORG, the other World Wide Free Domain service,
> has expressed interest along with me to start a free top level domain.

Yes. If we can :-)

[ Note: I am the administrator of EU.ORG ]

Aveek and I are here partly to defend the interests of non-profit
registries which, generally and not surprisingly, happen to coincide
with the interests of non-profit and individual users, i.e.: a
minimal-cost, minimal-overhead, working service. It *is* possible,
as proved by ML.ORG and EU.ORG.
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Pierre Beyssac	    pb@fasterix.frmug.fr.net pb@fasterix.freenix.fr
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