Verisign CEO: 'Get Rid of Non-Profit Root Servers!'

RJ · 10-20-2003, 01:51 PM

With the one-year anniversary of the biggest denial of service attack ever on the domain name system coming up this week, VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos has, in recent interviews, made provocative statements about commercializing the DNS.

"It's time for the internet infrastructure to go commercial.... it's time to pull the root servers away from volunteers who run them out of a university or lab... That's going to be an unpopular decision."

Sclavos argues that only commercial operators have the resources to adequately run the internet's infrastructure, which has mostly been the domain of academic, governmental and non-profit institutions.

Source: http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/...256dc50018bddd
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/8890-verisign-ceo-get-rid-non-profit.html

Does he make a good point?

FruitFish · 10-20-2003, 02:04 PM

Bastard!

Elefekt · 10-20-2003, 02:42 PM

What the... thats not too cool.

painperdu · 10-20-2003, 06:58 PM

Actually, he doesn't even make a point. He just states that because of the anniversary of the DoS event the root server system should be put into commercial hands.

Furthermore, the ISC and others are doing just about all that can be done by installing mirrored servers. What could commercializing do to better this?

**Dave Zan** · 11-05-2003, 08:35 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by -RJ-
"It's time for the internet infrastructure to go commercial.... it's time to pull the root servers away from volunteers who run them out of a university or lab... That's going to be an unpopular decision."
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=8890
Source: http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/...256dc50018bddd

Poor Stratton is going to remain unpopular one way or another.

He should give the "volunteers who run them out of a university or lab" more credit than he thinks.

We'll see....

pelican · 11-05-2003, 11:08 AM

he is always creating excuse to suck money.

Elefekt · 11-05-2003, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by NeonHQ
he is always creating excuse to suck money.

Agree...meh

kohashi · 11-08-2003, 10:47 PM

another mistake by VeriSign.

Matt · 11-11-2003, 10:33 AM

I think one of the major arguements against his plan, is simply to look at KPN Quest and WorldCom. Great, monalithic infrastrucres that they were....look at them now.

This is the inherant issue or problem I see by giving the root servers to financialy liabile and responsible companies, who, in truth, are only there to make money for their board of directors and share holders. They will never give a f**k about the user when they dont make momeny off them.

Just my 2cents

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RJ NamePros Webmaster Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,930 Follow @DomainBuyer	Verisign CEO: 'Get Rid of Non-Profit Root Servers!' With the one-year anniversary of the biggest denial of service attack ever on the domain name system coming up this week, VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos has, in recent interviews, made provocative statements about commercializing the DNS. "It's time for the internet infrastructure to go commercial.... it's time to pull the root servers away from volunteers who run them out of a university or lab... That's going to be an unpopular decision." Sclavos argues that only commercial operators have the resources to adequately run the internet's infrastructure, which has mostly been the domain of academic, governmental and non-profit institutions. Source: http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/...256dc50018bddd ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/8890-verisign-ceo-get-rid-non-profit.html Does he make a good point? __________________ @DomainBuyer facebook

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painperdu NamePros Regular Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Louisiana, USA Posts: 658	Actually, he doesn't even make a point. He just states that because of the anniversary of the DoS event the root server system should be put into commercial hands. Furthermore, the ISC and others are doing just about all that can be done by installing mirrored servers. What could commercializing do to better this? __________________ dotbob.com -Cheap Domain Name Registrations/Unlimited Web Hosting Plan $5.98/month

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Dave Zan Electrifying Guy Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 4,749 Follow @DaveZan	Re: Verisign CEO: 'Get Rid of Non-Profit Root Servers!' [QUOTE]Originally posted by -RJ- "It's time for the internet infrastructure to go commercial.... it's time to pull the root servers away from volunteers who run them out of a university or lab... That's going to be an unpopular decision." ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=8890 Source: http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/...256dc50018bddd Poor Stratton is going to remain unpopular one way or another. He should give the "volunteers who run them out of a university or lab" more credit than he thinks. We'll see....

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Matt Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UK Posts: 3,923	I think one of the major arguements against his plan, is simply to look at KPN Quest and WorldCom. Great, monalithic infrastrucres that they were....look at them now. This is the inherant issue or problem I see by giving the root servers to financialy liabile and responsible companies, who, in truth, are only there to make money for their board of directors and share holders. They will never give a f**k about the user when they dont make momeny off them. Just my 2cents __________________ Gamerz.Biz - Possibly For Sale

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