In message <20000714130518.J24018@mail-abuse.org>, "J.D. Falk" writes:

On 07/14/00, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

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But seriously - there's serious operational considerations involved if everybody doesn't have a consistent view of the DNS root - it's called Balkanization.

Very true. There are some who don't care about that, but in all the years they've been proposing alternate roots (and I, too, was in favor of the idea for a few months, early on), not one has ever had more than a handful of real users -- IMHO, this is due at least in part to the fact that the spokespeople for these schemes confuse invective with salesmanship.

If your goal is to provide customers with access to the entire Internet, and to provide the entire Internet with access to your customers, then you'd be doing them a disservice if you encourage them to use non-standard top-level domains.

Right. Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS roots: http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt --Steve Bellovin