In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103131010030.41040-100000@localhost>, Patrick Greenw ell writes:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
Do any ISPs or web hosting companies have publically available statements on their web sites stating that they will not support the new new.net domains and why they won't? I am getting more requests from users to change our DNS root servers to support this and wanted to see what others tell their users. Any IETF/ICANN statement available?
RFC 2826 IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root
It would better be termed "IAB Political Comment on the Unique DNS Root."
As someone who was on the IAB at the time that RFC was written, I disagree -- there were *no* political discussions. But that's an unverifiable assertion. Instead, could you point at anything in the document you perceive as "political" rather than technical? To be precise, what is your response to this, the second paragraph of the document? Put simply, deploying multiple public DNS roots would raise a very strong possibility that users of different ISPs who click on the same link on a web page could end up at different destinations, against the will of the web page designers. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb