Jeff Williams wrote:
> 
> Jean and all
> 
> Jean-Christophe Praud wrote:
> 
> > With non-central decision processes, the technical requirements for DNS
> > management can be lowered, too. Making it easier for small organizations
> > to play their role.
> > The more people (servers) are involved in decision (DNS), the more
> > stable and sure the system becomes...
> 
>   In principal I can agree with this.

The IRSC (http://www.aursc.ah.net ) is exactly working for that. Trying
to find as many people as we can to operate new TLDs and DNS servers.

> 
> >
> >
> > The Internet as a whole was built following this principle : a localized
> > incident can't be allowed to crash all the network.
> 
>   Agreed.
> 
> >
> >
> > Can we accept that an InterNIC servers disruption (july '97) can destroy
> > all the Net ?
> 
>   No.  But this problem was one time occurance.  It was mainly due to an
> operator error.

it's a bit like the Internet Worm : it MUST not happen anymore...

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