> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owner-Domain-Policy [mailto:owner-domain-policy@INTERNIC.NET]On
> Behalf Of William X. Walsh
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:55 PM
> To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
> Subject: Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder
> what
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:47:44 -0700, "Roeland M.J. Meyer"
> <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:
>
> >I was acutually refering to the test you said that you did.
> BTW, this is
> >actually a god thing to know. Why not ask those 500 ISP techs whether
> >they are doing this, let's get some hard numbers. I'll also
> ask NANOG.
> >The recommendations have been made there and it has been
> discussed, but
> >there are no hard numbers detailing how many of them are
> actually doing
> >this. Also, Jim Dixon has been advocating this practice in
> EU, since we
> >discussed it on the IFWP list. However, I have no data on
> how many have
> >actually adopted the practice. It is incidently significant
> that a large
> >number of the majors are not effected at all by name server
> outages at
> >the root level..
> >
>
> Actually, there are very few root-server outages that affect anyone.
>
> I don't recall any in recent history that significantly affected
> operations.
>