Re:BIND, Vixie, et al (Score 4)

> where's this BIND 9 that keeps getting talked about? the companies who funded it wanted early access. since the budget was $1.5M we gave on this point. when it's ready for public testing it will be up on some ftp server with a regular BSD/ISC license. > Second, who's going to take over BIND now? nobody. ISC took it over in 1994. i'm chairman of ISC but as bind8 is approaching end-of-life in favour of bind9, my involvement as an architect is sort of ending. i'm just a manager now. > Third, what's the -real- reason for the resignation? 10 years is a long time. DNS is very big now. i'm going to stay involved with ISC but not be "the" or even "a" BIND technologist in the future. once we (ISC) get bind9 out the door i may decide to contribute code fragments to it, but as an individual contributor rather than as any sort of author, coauthor, or architect.