On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote: <snip>
Once we start down the slippery slope of "I'm a root too", how many different ad hoc DNS "universes" (for lack of better term) must we have before we decide that things are "broken"?
I'm pretty sure that if you were to ask most of us who use alternative roots, the reason would be that we are, in our own little way, trying to "fix" the DNS by doing so. In my case, I believe that ICANN is totally corrupt, *completely* oblivious [by choice] of how their corruption impacts the real world, and finally, that because of this deeply entrenched corruption, the DNS is de-facto "broken".
I'd hazard a guess that 99.9% of Internet users want things to "just work" cohesively and consistently.
I agree completely, and it is this belief that seems to be missing at ICANN. Unless of course a system can be set up whereby ICANN is the sole financial recipient of the fruits of this consistency: then ICANN can be most cooperative in "working for the public good". <snip>
Maintaining a single, authoritative root seems, IMHO, to be a Good Thing.
I agree totally. Pity we can't get ICANN to go along with this without forking over our life's savings and bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H donations of our first borns, huh?
Given multiple registries, namespace collisions would get ugly -- and, even in the absence of collisions, let us consider "reachability" issues.
I agree with all of this, but the issue is moot in my book: Since ICANN felt the need to either own the world or break it, I went elsewhere. So did a LOT of others. Look at the mass exodus from NS/Verisign - same issues. IMNSHO, ICANN cares not a rats a@@ about the internet, they are only interested in the money and the power. That makes their "positions" totally meaningless to me, and a lot of others who feel the same way.
This isn't a question of "I like ICANN" or not... it's a question of the system. Do people decide that they like or dislike our system of government based solely on specific elected officials?
No, but at least our [deeply flawed and bleeding] system keeps the *pretense* of following the laws of the land. As for your inference that the ICANN folken are all "elected" officials...
Cheap domains from the EverQuick root! Guaranteed to work at a handful of local dialups and dedicated-line customers! :-)
Oh, didn't you hear? EverQuick *also* includes the records of it's largest competitor, so you can go to ALL of the places you wanted, not just the ones that live on EverQuik.
I think that I'll start handing out ASNs and IP space, too...
It's called subdelegation. Go for it. Totally different system, which for the most part works. (Yes, there are flaws there too, but...)
Eddy
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