Re: Specific Questions

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 3:18 PM -0600 12/26/96, Dave Crocker wrote:

> >6)	Complete irrelavance to the real world in regards to (5).  If the
> >	TLDs are all shared, the net effect of a registry failure is ZERO.
>
> Well, now, THAT's an interesting view from someone running an ISP.  There
> are a number of you in Chicago, thereby making Chicago a shared-ISP
> environment.  Do you believe that it would have zero effect on your
> customers if you suddenly ceased operation today?  After all, there are all
> those other ISPs to choose from.
>

How can you attempt to introduce sharing if you clearly don't
understand how it works?

ISP's are not sharing customer accounts or IP space. They share the
customer territory. Each ISP is exclusive to their user base. THIS IS
NOT THE SAME AS SHARED-TLD DELEGATION.

Shared-TLD delegation provides the exactly same namespace delegation
via many store-fronts (registrars), just like you can buy a Hershey bar
in any grocery store.

Regards,

Simon

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