Christian Kuhtz wrote:
So, since there won't be a flag day, ...
Maybe that's the point. The notion of Internet flag days has largely disappeared as the Internet's ubiquity and criticality have increased. There won't be flag days for IPv6, S(o)BGP, BGP-5, etc. So what's a company like Verisign to do when they want to substantially change the way the COM and NET zones work? (And is the answer different if they want to make these changes solely for their own financial gain?) If an incremental rollout isn't possible here, then folks end up in the fairly rare position of trying to figure out how to roll out a significant change that will affect the entire Internet at what will essentially be the flip of a switch. Clearly, "pulling a Verisign" and doing it without notifying anybody beforehand isn't the right way. But this alone doesn't make it much easier to decide what *is* the right way. -Terry