Re: First come/First served

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Pierre Beyssac allegedly said:
> 
> 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?

I agree also.  One of the things I would like to see, in fact, is a
world wide volunteer shared DNS for at least some TLDs.  I don't know
how to do this technically, but it would be a fascinating project to
work on... 

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