steve, all. On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:01:22AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote:
problem. Right now, if you're an end user doing your DNS lookups via the ICANN root, you can get to just about everything. If you're something that end users want to connect to, using an ICANN-recognized domain will mean almost everybody can get to you, while an "alternative" TLD would mean only a tiny fraction of the Internet would be able to get to you. So, if you're a content provider, why would you use anything other than a real ICANN-recognized domain? And, if the content providers aren't using real domain names, why would an end user care about whether they can get to the TLDs that nobody is using?
s/ICANN root/real Internet/ s/"alternative" TLD/IPv6/
The exceptions to this that I see would be either when somebody comes out with something that is so much better that it's useful in spite of a lack of an installed userbase (Skype may be doing this to phone calls), or when something is rolled out to a large enough self-contained user community that the lack of ability to communicate outside that region won't be a significant barrier. [...] But still, anybody wanting to communicate outside that region or userbase would probably find they were much happier using addresses that met global standards.
all of this applies directly to lack of IPv6 adoption, again.
So anyhow, that's a long way of saying that, just as this hasn't gone anywhere any of the many other times it's been raised over the last several years, it's unlikely to go anywhere, or cause problems, this time.
so does this. IPv6: unlikely to go anywhere or cause problems. good to know. funny. all threads eventually merge. (and then someone mentions the nazis and they end. i think meta-mentions like this explicitly don't count so we may have to suffer through this thread for a while longer). t. -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood director of operations & security renesys - interdomain intelligence todd@renesys.com www.renesys.com