On 07/14/00, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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. Who was it who said "what if you had a revolution and nobody came?" (BTW, this has all been argued here many times before, both with and without kooks.) -- J.D. Falk "Laughter is the sound Product Manager that knowledge makes when it's born." Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC -- The Cluetrain Manifesto