At 11:02 AM -0500 4/10/97, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
If the Internet Ad Hoc society actually does convince everyone to switch over, then there is a major problem. Does this mean any group of people who wants to make rules and can get enough publicity can make it happen
I'm not sure what "switch over" you refer to. The IAHC work that you refer to was done at the request and with the approval of IANA, the responsible agent for the existing DNS root. Implementation of the IAHC plan does not require changing the communities use of roots (i.e., no re-targeting) and the only change to the existing roots is the addition of some top-level domain points. Addition of TLDs has been done many times over the years. d/ ---------------------------- Dave Crocker, Director +1 408 246 8253 Internet Mail Consortium (f) +1 408 249 6205 127 Segre Place dcrocker@imc.org Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA http://www.imc.org Also: IAHC member, expressing personal opinions http://www.iahc.org