IP: an interchange on Afilias -- Old Internet Thinking RIP

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

 From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" <ole@cisco.com>
> Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole@cisco.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT)
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Old Internet Thinking RIP
> 
> Froomkin seems to have missed that the technical work for .org is going to
> be performed by Afilias, a well-established registry operator.
> 
> Ole
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> Ole J. Jacobsen
> Editor and Publisher
> The Internet Protocol Journal
> Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems
> Tel: +1 408-527-8972
> GSM: +1 415-370-4628
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From: Carl Malamud <carl@media.org>


Well ... we don't really know that Afilias is a well-established registry
operator, do we?  Do they meet their SLAs?  Does their code conform with
the EPP spec? How's internal performance?  Are security procedures really
in place?  

There are no public studies by reputable sources that have examined the
technical performance of the Afilias registries and I certainly don't
see any public facilities available that allow me to make that assessment.

The paper trail stops.   I can't do technical due diligence and it is pretty
clear that nobody doing the .org evaluations did any due diligence.  That
may be appropriate for pitching a .com business plan or writing an OSI
standard, 
but it isn't my understanding of how you run a public service on the
Internet.

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• From: Carl Malamud <carl@media.org>
• To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
• Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:58:06 -0700 (PDT)

Well ... we don't really know that Afilias is a well-established registry
operator, do we?  Do they meet their SLAs?  Does their code conform with
the EPP spec? How's internal performance?  Are security procedures really
in place?  

There are no public studies by reputable sources that have examined the
technical performance of the Afilias registries and I certainly don't
see any public facilities available that allow me to make that assessment.

The paper trail stops.   I can't do technical due diligence and it is pretty 
clear that nobody doing the .org evaluations did any due diligence.  That 
may be appropriate for pitching a .com business plan or writing an OSI standard, 
but it isn't my understanding of how you run a public service on the Internet.

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> From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" <ole@cisco.com>
> Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole@cisco.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT)
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Old Internet Thinking RIP
> 
> Froomkin seems to have missed that the technical work for .org is going to
> be performed by Afilias, a well-established registry operator.
> 
> Ole
> 
> 
> 
> Ole J. Jacobsen
> Editor and Publisher
> The Internet Protocol Journal
> Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems
> Tel: +1 408-527-8972
> GSM: +1 415-370-4628
> E-mail: ole@cisco.com
> URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
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