Thus spake "Peter Dambier" <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
I'm confused by the reasoning behind this public-root (alternate root) problem... It seems to me (minus crazy-pills of course) that there is no way for it to work, ever. So why keep trying to push it and break other things along the way?
Paul Vixie has given very good arguments.
Let me add a design fault:
As more than 80% of all names are registered under '.com' there is no need for any other domain.
Ok, let us get rid of all those domains and put them under '.com.
Now there is no more need for '.com' either. Let us get rid of it and we have finally got more than 3000 toplevel domains. That is all we want.
No, what you'd get is 25M top-level domains and virtually no hierarchy. That is _not_ what we want. .com is an abomination, as are the other gTLDs to a lesser extent. .gov, .mil, .edu, .info, and .biz need to be shifted under .us immediately, and everyone under .com, .net, and .org needs to be gradually moved under the appropriate part of the real DNS tree. I can live with .int continuing on, but only because no better solution immediately comes to mind.
Let me compare Public-Root and ICANNs root: ... The Public-Root has got 3043 domains. ICANNs root has got only 263.
There is a political design problem with ICANNs root. It has not got enough toplevel domains.
DNS was designed as a tree. It was designed decentralised.
DNS today has degenerated to a flat file like /etc/hosts was.
What you're proposing is eliminating what little tree-like elements are left and making a totally flat system. Can't you see that you're arguing against your own position here? S Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin