Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Nov 9, 2009, at 19:32, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:24:52PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
i loved the henry ford analogy -- but i think henry ford would have said that the automatic transmission was a huge step forward since he wanted everybody to have a car. i can't think of anything that's happened in the automobile market that henry ford wouldn't've wished he'd thought of.
i knew that the "incoherent DNS" market would rise up on its hind legs and say all kinds of things in its defense against the ACM Queue article, and i'm not going to engage with every such speaker.
Paul: I completely agree with you that putting wildcards into the roots, GTLDs, CCTLDs, etc. is a Bad Idea and should be squashed. Users have little (no?) choice on their TLDs. Stopping those is a Good Thing, IMHO.
However, I own a domain (or couple hundred :). I have a wildcard on my domain. I point it where I want. I feel not the slightest twinge of guilt at this. Do you think this is a Bad Thing, or should this be allowed?
notbeing Paul, its rude of me to respond - yet you posted this to a public list ... so here goes.
Why do you find your behaviour in your domains acceptable and yet the same behaviour in others zones to be "a Bad Thing" and should be stopped?
Thought I was clear: Choice. I believe there is a qualitative difference between a *TLD and a second level domain. /Especially/ for the GTLDs. I guess one could argue CCTLDs are different, but I disagree. If you are in Germany, a .de is nearly as important as .com in the US. (Don't believe me? Go to www.dtag.com.) But no one has to use ianai.net. Or aa.com. Or .... A second issue is ownership. I own my domain. The .com domain is not owed by Verisign (despite what they may think :-). Again, one could make an argument that the CCTLDs are different - "owned" by their host countries. I personally disagree, but I admit that argument is less objective than the GTLDs. Do you disagree wih my logic? Do you believe Verisign should be allowed to do with .net the same things I should be allowed to do with ianai.net ? If so, please explain why. If not, uh ... Why did you ask? =) -- TTFN, patrick