To:
"Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 01:03:30 +0200
In-Reply-To:
<0cf201c26e7e$4a1ffc20$0100a8c0@repligate>
Reply-By:
Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Interim signing of the root zone.
At 10:53 PM -0500 2002/10/07, Jim Fleming wrote:
> The entire, "toy", 32-bit, experimental, proof-of-concept network
> is the perfect place to play.
Toy? Are you serious or just sarcastic?
> Companies with a serious commercial interest have all of the
> labs and facilities they need to fully test software and
> systems before they are deployed.
They may have the facilities, but even they need help in
performing full interoperability and functionality testing of this
kind of scale.
> The only amusement is that
> people from the experimental networks take themselves so
> seriously. The commercial world does not.
The commercial world doesn't take them seriously, or doesn't take
itself seriously?
Both statements are sufficiently ludicrous that I won't bother
saying anything else.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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